The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 25
And, plunging in, she swam along the bottom as far as the palace, where the queen and all the fishes gathered together awaiting her.
Who acts: Fish, queen · What happens: plunge in, swim, gather, await · To what, where: bottom, Fish
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fish, queen), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 plunging | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 plunging | punct |
| 3 | plunging | plunge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 plunging | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 swam | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 swam | nsubj |
| 7 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 plunging | conj |
| 8 | along | along | ADP | _ | 10 bottom | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bottom | det |
| 10 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swam | obl |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 far | advmod |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 palace | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swam | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gathered | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 gathered | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 queen | det |
| 19 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gathered | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fishes | cc |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 fishes | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fishes | det |
| 23 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 queen | conj |
| 24 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 palace | conj |
| 25 | together | together | ADV | _ | 24 gathered | advmod |
| 26 | awaiting | await | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 gathered | advcl |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 awaiting | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 plunging | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plunge in | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 2 | swim | past | Fish | the bottom | as the palace | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along bottom=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | gather | past | the queen and all fishes | together property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | await | gerund | the queen and all fishes not said here | Fish | 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 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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