English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 53

Well, when the fish came on the table, the guests liked it so well that they asked the noble who cooked it.

Who acts: fish, guests, noble · What happens: come, like, ask, cook · To what, where: table, fish, noble

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 (fish, guests, noble), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fish	det
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 table	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 table	det
9	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 liked	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 guests	det
12	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 liked	nsubj
13	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 liked	obj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 well	advmod
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 liked	advmod
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 asked	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 asked	nsubj
19	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 liked	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 noble	det
21	noble	noble	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 asked	obj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 cooked	nsubj
23	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 noble	acl:relcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 cooked	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the fish		the table		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on table=Location
2	like	past	the guests	fish		well property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	guests = guest	the noble			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent noble=Recipient
4	cook	past	the noble	fish			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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: «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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