The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 82
How was he to find his father and mother, and bring them back to life, if they were lying at the bottom of that horrible water?
Who acts: prince, you, father · What happens: be, bring back, lie · To what, where: father, life, bottom
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, you, father), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 find | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 bring | advcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 mother | cc |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 father | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bring | cc |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | obj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 bring | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 life | case |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lying | punct |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 lying | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lying | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lying | aux |
| 21 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 bring | parataxis |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 bottom | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bottom | det |
| 24 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lying | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 water | case |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 water | det |
| 27 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 water | amod |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bottom | nmod |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | prince | find property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring back | imperative | you not said here | father | life | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to life=Destination | |||
| 3 | lie a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | father | the bottom of that horrible water | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bottom=Location |
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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