The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 32
She had watched jelly-fish and nautilus swimming a little way below the surface, and beautiful coloured sea-weeds floating about; but that was all.
Who acts: shoal, beautiful coloured sea weeds · What happens: watch, swim, float · To what, where: jelly fish, little way, surface
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoal, beautiful coloured sea weeds), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 watched | aux |
| 3 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | jelly | jelly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fish | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 jelly | punct |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 watched | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 nautilus | cc |
| 8 | nautilus | nautilus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fish | conj |
| 9 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 watched | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 way | amod |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swimming | obj |
| 13 | below | below | ADP | _ | 15 surface | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 surface | det |
| 15 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 way | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 weeds | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 weeds | cc |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 weeds | amod |
| 19 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 weeds | amod |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 weeds | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 sea | punct |
| 22 | weeds | weed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 watched | conj |
| 23 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 weeds | acl |
| 24 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 floating | advmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 all | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 all | cc |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 all | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 all | cop |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 watched | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past · perfect | shoal | jelly fish and nautilus | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swim | gerund | shoal not said here | a little way | the surface | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | float | gerund | beautiful coloured sea weeds not said here | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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