--- title: As he was inspecting it with some surprise, the fish opened its mout… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As he was inspecting it with some surprise, the fish opened its mouth and said: ‘Listen to me, fisher; if you will just throw me back into the water I’ll turn your poor little cottage into a splendid castle.’ Who acts: fisherman, fish, you, I. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/49/3/) [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 Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Golden Lads](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/49/) / 3 # The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 3 As he was inspecting it with some surprise, the fish opened its mouth and said: ‘Listen to me, fisher; if you will just throw me back into the water I’ll turn your poor little cottage into a splendid castle.’ **Who acts:** fisherman, fish, you, I · **What happens:** inspect, open, say, listen, throw back, 'll · **To what, where:** net, mouth, fisher, me, water, poor little cottage · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman, fish, you, I), 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:pg7277:49:3 # text = As he was inspecting it with some surprise, the fish opened its mouth and said: ‘Listen to me, fisher; if you will just throw me back into the water I’ll turn your poor little cottage into a splendid castle.’ 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 inspecting inspect VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 8 det _ _ 8 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 Listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 fisher fisher NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 just just ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 throw throw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 30 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 back back ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ’ll 'll VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 turn turn VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 39 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 cottage cottage NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 42 into into ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 splendid splendid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **inspect** | past · progressive | fisherman | net | | | | with some surprise | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **open** | past | the fish | net's mouth | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the fish *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **listen** | infinitive | | fisher | me | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme | | 5 | **throw back** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | me | | | | into the water *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer i=Theme into water=Result | | 6 | **'ll** | present | I | the water *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **turn** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your poor little cottage | | a splendid castle | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme into castle=Trajectory | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/49/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/49/4/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Lads](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/49/)