The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 78

The one which neither sinks nor comes to the surface is the cane that is cut from the middle; and the one that floats is from the top.”

Who acts: one · What happens: sink, come, be, cut, float · To what, where: cane, middle, top

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), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 top	nsubj
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sinks	nsubj
4	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	5 sinks	nsubj
5	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 one	acl:relcl
6	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	7 comes	cc
7	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sinks	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 surface	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 surface	det
10	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cane	obl
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 cane	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cane	det
13	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 comes	obl
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 cut	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 cut	aux:pass
16	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 cane	acl:relcl
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 middle	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 middle	det
19	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cut	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 one	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 one	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 top	nsubj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 floats	nsubj
25	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 one	acl:relcl
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 top	cop
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 top	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 top	det
29	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 top	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 top	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sink	present	the one				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	come	present	the one not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present		the cane		to the surface	tree rules
4	cut	present · passive		the cane	the middle		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from middle=Material
5	float	present	the one				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	present	the one		the top		tree rules

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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