The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 3
Now, once the line was pulled deep under the water, and when he hauled it up he hauled a large flounder with it.
Who acts: fish · What happens: pull, haul up, haul · To what, where: line, water, large flounder
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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 pulled | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 7 pulled | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 line | det |
| 5 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pulled | aux:pass |
| 7 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 7 pulled | advmod |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pulled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hauled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hauled | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 hauled | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hauled | nsubj |
| 16 | hauled | haul | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hauled | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hauled | obj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 hauled | compound:prt |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hauled | nsubj |
| 20 | hauled | haul | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pulled | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 flounder | det |
| 22 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 flounder | amod |
| 23 | flounder | flounder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hauled | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hauled | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past · passive | the line | the water | now | deep property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||
| 2 | haul up | past | fish | line | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | haul | past | fish | a large flounder | with water | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flounder=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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