The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 2
So he used to sit with his rod and gaze into the shining water; and he would gaze and gaze.
Who acts: fish · What happens: use, sit, gaze, shine
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 (fish), 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 | _ | 3 used | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 used | nsubj |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 sit | mark |
| 5 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 used | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 rod | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 rod | nmod:poss |
| 8 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sit | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gaze | cc |
| 10 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sit | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 13 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 water | amod |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gaze | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 gaze | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gaze | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gaze | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 gaze | aux |
| 19 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 used | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gaze | cc |
| 21 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 gaze | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | fish | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | sit | to-infinitive | fish not said here | with fish's rod | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | gaze | infinitive | fish not said here | into the shining water | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into water=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | gaze | would | fish | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | gaze | infinitive | fish not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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