English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 52
Then she cooked the fish as nicely as she could, and served it up.
Who acts: girl · What happens: cook, serve up · To what, where: fish
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 (girl), 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 | 3 cooked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cooked | nsubj |
| 3 | cooked | cook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fish | det |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cooked | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 nicely | advmod |
| 7 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 3 cooked | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 could | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 could | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 nicely | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 served | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 served | cc |
| 13 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cooked | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 served | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 served | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cooked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | past | girl | the fish | then | nicely property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | ||
| 2 | serve up | past | girl not said here | fish | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Attribute |
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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