The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 9
With these words he put him back again into the shining water, and the flounder sank to the bottom, leaving a long streak of blood behind.
Who acts: flounder · What happens: put back, shine, sink, leave · To what, where: man, shining water, long streak
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), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 put | nsubj |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 put | obj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 put | advmod |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 put | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 11 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 water | amod |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sank | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sank | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 flounder | det |
| 16 | flounder | flounder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sank | nsubj |
| 17 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 bottom | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bottom | det |
| 20 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sank | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 leaving | punct |
| 22 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 sank | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 streak | det |
| 24 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 streak | amod |
| 25 | streak | streak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 leaving | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 blood | case |
| 27 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 streak | nmod |
| 28 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 22 leaving | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put back | past | flounder | man | the shining water | again | with this words | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal | |
| 2 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | sink | past | the flounder | to the bottom | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | leave | gerund | the flounder not said here | a long streak of blood | behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent streak=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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