The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 77
After a little while one will sink to the bottom; that is the one that grows nearest the root.
Who acts: one, that · What happens: sink, be, grow · To what, where: one
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, that), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 little | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sink | obl |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 sink | mark |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 sink | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 sink | aux |
| 7 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 bottom | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bottom | det |
| 10 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sink | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 one | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sink | conj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 grows | nsubj |
| 17 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | acl:relcl |
| 18 | nearest | nearest | ADP | _ | 20 root | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 root | det |
| 20 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grows | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | future | one | after a little | to the bottom | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | present | that | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | present | the one | nearest the root | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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