The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 42
This took him some time, but at length he came to a lake whose waters were sweetened with sugar.
Who acts: This, man · What happens: take, come, sweeten · To what, where: man, length, waters
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, man), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 length | case |
| 9 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 lake | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lake | det |
| 14 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 16 waters | nmod:poss |
| 16 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sweetened | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sweetened | aux:pass |
| 18 | sweetened | sweeten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 lake | acl:relcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 sugar | case |
| 20 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sweetened | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | This | man | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 2 | come | past | man | length | to a lake | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | sweeten | past · passive | waters | with sugar | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with sugar=Instrument |
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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