The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 129

So the fisherman went home, and when he came there he saw the whole castle was made of polished marble, ornamented with alabaster statues and gold.

Who acts: fisherman, flounder · What happens: go, come, see, make, polish, ornament · To what, where: whole castle, polished marble · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman, flounder), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fisherman	det
3	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saw	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 came	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 saw	advcl
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 came	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 castle	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 castle	amod
16	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 made	aux:pass
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 saw	ccomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 marble	case
20	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 marble	amod
21	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ornamented	punct
23	ornamented	ornament	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 marble	acl
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 statues	case
25	alabaster	alabaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 statues	compound
26	statues	statue	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 ornamented	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 gold	cc
28	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 statues	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the fisherman			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	flounder		there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	past	flounder				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	make	past · passive		the whole castle		of polished marble	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
5	polish	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
6	ornament	participle		polished marble not said here		with alabaster statues and gold	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with statue=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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