English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 54

He said he didn't know, but called to his servants: “Ho, there, send up the cook that cooked that fine fish.”

Who acts: noble, cook · What happens: say, not know, call, send up, cook · To what, where: servants, cook, fine fish · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (noble, cook), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 know	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 know	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 know	advmod
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 called	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 called	cc
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 said	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 servants	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 servants	nmod:poss
12	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 called	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 Ho	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 Ho	punct
15	Ho	Ho	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 servants	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 there	punct
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 called	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 send	punct
19	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 send	compound:prt
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cook	det
22	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 send	obj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 cooked	nsubj
24	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 cook	acl:relcl
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 fish	det
26	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fish	amod
27	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cooked	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 send	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 send	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	noble			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not know	past · do-support	noble			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	call	participle	noble not said here		noble's servants Ho	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient
4	send up in a quote	infinitive		the cook		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cook=Theme
5	cook in a quote	past	the cook	that fine fish		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fish=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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