English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 14

There the fisherman found her, and took pity on the poor little thing and took her into his house, and she lived there till she was fifteen years old, and a fine handsome girl.

Who acts: fisherman, lass · What happens: find, take, live, be · To what, where: lass, pity, poor little thing, house

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman, lass), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 found	expl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fisherman	det
3	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 took	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 took	cc
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	conj
9	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	14 thing	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 thing	det
12	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thing	amod
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thing	amod
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 took	cc
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 took	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 house	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 house	nmod:poss
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lived	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lived	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lived	nsubj
24	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	conj
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 lived	advmod
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	31 old	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 old	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 old	cop
29	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 years	nummod
30	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 old	obl:unmarked
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lived	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 girl	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 girl	cc
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 girl	det
35	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 girl	amod
36	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 girl	amod
37	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	parataxis
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	the fisherman	lass	there			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
2	take	past	the fisherman not said here	pity	the poor little thing			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on thing=Destination
3	take	past	the fisherman not said here	lass	fisherman's house			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into house=Destination
4	live	past	lass		there			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	lass			year	old property	tree rules

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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