The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 107
“In the forest near here is a fine stream but not a fish or other living creature in it.
What happens: be, live · To what, where: fine stream, forest
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 stream | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 forest | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 forest | det |
| 4 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stream | obl |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 here | case |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 forest | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 stream | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 stream | det |
| 9 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stream | amod |
| 10 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 fish | cc |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 fish | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fish | det |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stream | conj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 creature | cc |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 creature | amod |
| 17 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 creature | amod |
| 18 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fish | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 creature | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stream | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a fine stream but a fish or other living creature in creature | the forest | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live in a quote | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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