The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 86
Then once more she dipped the sieve into the well, and, behold, this time not a drop of water disappeared!
Who acts: flock, time · What happens: dip, not drop, disappear · To what, where: sieve, well, drop
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flock, time), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 dipped | advmod |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 more | advmod |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 dipped | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dipped | nsubj |
| 5 | dipped | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sieve | det |
| 7 | sieve | sieve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dipped | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 well | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 well | det |
| 10 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dipped | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 behold | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 behold | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 behold | punct |
| 14 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 5 dipped | discourse |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 drop | punct |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drop | nsubj |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 drop | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 drop | det |
| 20 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dipped | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drop | nmod |
| 23 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 drop | acl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 dipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dip | past | flock | the sieve | the well | then | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sieve=Theme into well=Destination | ||
| 2 | not drop | this time | of water | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | disappear | participle | a drop not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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