The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 121
So the stream parted; he walked through and on to the highest part of the bank.
Who acts: stream, miller · What happens: part, walk
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: who acts (stream, miller), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 parted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stream | det |
| 3 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 parted | nsubj |
| 4 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 walked | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 walked | nsubj |
| 7 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 parted | conj |
| 8 | through | through | ADV | _ | 7 walked | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 on | cc |
| 10 | on | on | ADV | _ | 8 through | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 part | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 part | det |
| 13 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 part | amod |
| 14 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walked | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 bank | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bank | det |
| 17 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 part | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 parted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part | past | the stream | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | miller | to the highest part of the bank result; through property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to part=Result |
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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