The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 52
For some time the prince wandered up and down peering into the bottom of the stream, but though the water was very clear, nothing could he see of the ring.
Who acts: prince, water, nothing · What happens: wander, peer, be, see
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, water, nothing), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wandered | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wandered | nsubj |
| 6 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 wandered | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 down | cc |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 up | conj |
| 10 | peering | peer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 wandered | advcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 bottom | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bottom | det |
| 13 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 peering | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 stream | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stream | det |
| 16 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bottom | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 see | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 see | cc |
| 19 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 24 clear | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 water | det |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 clear | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 clear | cop |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 clear | advmod |
| 24 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 nothing | amod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 clear | punct |
| 26 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 29 see | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 see | aux |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 see | nsubj |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wandered | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 ring | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 ring | det |
| 32 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 see | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | the prince | time | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | peer | gerund | the prince not said here | into the bottom of the stream | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into bottom=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the water | clear property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | could | nothing | of the ring | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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