The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 13
‘I caught a flounder who said he was an enchanted prince, so I let him swim away again.’
Who acts: I, flounder · What happens: catch, say, enchant, be, let, swim away · To what, where: flounder, enchanted prince · 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 (I, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 flounder | det |
| 5 | flounder | flounder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flounder | acl:relcl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 prince | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 prince | cop |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 prince | det |
| 11 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 prince | amod |
| 12 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 let | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 let | nsubj |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | xcomp |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 swim | advmod |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 swim | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | I | a flounder | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flounder=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a flounder | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | flounder | a enchanted prince | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | let | past | I | flounder | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | swim away | infinitive | flounder not said here | again | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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