The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 95

The fisherman went home, and when he came near the palace he saw that it had become much larger, and that it had great towers and splendid ornamental carving on it.

Who acts: fisherman, flounder, palace · What happens: go, come, see, become, have · To what, where: palace, great towers · 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 (fisherman, flounder, palace), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fisherman	det
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 came	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 saw	advcl
10	near	near	ADP	_	12 palace	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 palace	det
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 become	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 become	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 become	aux
18	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 saw	ccomp
19	much	much	ADV	_	20 larger	advmod
20	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 become	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 had	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 towers	amod
27	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 had	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 carving	cc
29	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 carving	amod
30	ornamental	ornamental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 carving	amod
31	carving	carving	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 towers	conj
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 carving	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the fisherman			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	flounder		the palace		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near palace=Location
3	see	past	flounder				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	become	past · perfect	palace			large property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	have	past	palace	great towers and splendid ornamental carving on carving			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Patient

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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