The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 49
The moment it dipped its head into the water its black skin vanished, and the most beautiful woman in the world was floating on the water.
Who acts: moment, black skin, beautiful woman · What happens: dip, vanish, float · To what, where: head, water
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moment, black skin, beautiful woman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dipped | nsubj |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dipped | nsubj |
| 4 | dipped | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dipped | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dipped | obl |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 skin | nmod:poss |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 skin | amod |
| 12 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 vanished | nsubj |
| 13 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 water | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 floating | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 floating | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 woman | det |
| 17 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 18 beautiful | advmod |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 woman | amod |
| 19 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 floating | nsubj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 woman | nmod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 floating | aux |
| 24 | floating | float | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 dipped | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 water | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 water | det |
| 27 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 floating | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dip | past | the moment | bade's head | the water | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme into water=Destination | |||
| 2 | vanish | past | bade's black skin | the water not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | float | past · progressive | the beautiful woman in the world | the water | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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