--- title: So he called to the fish, and the fish dived to the bottom and slipp… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So he called to the fish, and the fish dived to the bottom and slipped behind big stones, and moved little ones with its tail till it found the ring, and brought it to Jose in its mouth. Who acts: deal, fish. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32, with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/72/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/) / 72 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 72 So he called to the fish, and the fish dived to the bottom and slipped behind big stones, and moved little ones with its tail till it found the ring, and brought it to Jose in its mouth. **Who acts:** deal, fish · **What happens:** call, dive, slip, move, find, bring · **To what, where:** fish, bottom, big stones, little ones, ring, Jose · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deal, fish), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3027:32:72 # text = So he called to the fish, and the fish dived to the bottom and slipped behind big stones, and moved little ones with its tail till it found the ring, and brought it to Jose in its mouth. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 dived dive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 slipped slip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 17 behind behind ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 till till SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Jose Jose PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | past | deal | | the fish | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to fish=Recipient | | 2 | **dive** | past | the fish | | | the bottom | | | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Location | | 3 | **slip** | past | the fish *not said here* | big stones | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent stone=Patient | | 4 | **move** | past | deal *not said here* | little ones | | | | with fish's tail | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 5 | **find** | past | fish | the ring | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Topic | | 6 | **bring** | past | deal *not said here* | fish | Jose | fish's mouth | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to jose=Destination | 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/73/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/)