The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 26

Then the flounder came swimming up and said, ‘Well, what does she want?’

Who acts: flounder, wife · What happens: come, swim up, say, want · 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 (flounder, wife), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flounder	det
3	flounder	flounder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 came	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 swimming	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 want	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 want	punct
11	Well	well	INTJ	_	16 want	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Well	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 want	obj
14	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 want	aux
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 want	nsubj
16	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 want	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	come	past	the flounder	then	tree rules
2	swim up	gerund	the flounder not said here		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the flounder not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	want	present · do-support	wife		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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