The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 88

Then these again melted into fountains, whose waters interlaced and, rushing down the sides of the hall, poured out in a cascade down the steps, and formed a river found the castle, with the most beautiful little boats upon it, all painted and gilded.

Who acts: these, river, beautiful little boats · What happens: melt, interlace, rush, pour out, form, find · To what, where: fountains, waters, sides, cascade, castle, all

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (these, river, beautiful little boats), 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	4 melted	advmod
2	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 melted	nsubj
3	again	again	ADV	_	4 melted	advmod
4	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 fountains	case
6	fountains	fountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 melted	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 waters	punct
8	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	9 waters	nmod:poss
9	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fountains	conj
10	interlaced	interlace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 waters	acl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 rushing	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rushing	punct
13	rushing	rush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 interlaced	conj
14	down	down	ADP	_	16 sides	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sides	det
16	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rushing	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 hall	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hall	det
19	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sides	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 poured	punct
21	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fountains	acl
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 poured	compound:prt
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 cascade	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 cascade	det
25	cascade	cascade	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 poured	obl
26	down	down	ADP	_	28 steps	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 steps	det
28	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 poured	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 formed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 formed	cc
31	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 melted	advcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 river	det
33	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 found	nsubj
34	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 formed	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 castle	det
36	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 found	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 boats	punct
38	with	with	ADP	_	43 boats	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 boats	det
40	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	41 beautiful	advmod
41	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 boats	amod
42	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 boats	amod
43	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 found	obl
44	upon	upon	ADP	_	45 it	case
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 boats	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 painted	punct
47	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 painted	nsubj:pass
48	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 boats	acl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 gilded	cc
50	gilded	gild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 painted	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 melted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	participle	these		fountains and fountains and fountains's waters's waters	then; again		vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into fountain=Product
2	interlace	participle		fountains and fountains and waters's waters's waters not said here				vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	rush	gerund			the sides of the hall			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down side=Trajectory
4	pour out	participle		fountains and fountains and fountains's waters's waters not said here	a cascade		down the steps	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down step=Location
5	form	past	these not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	find	past	a river	the castle			with the beautiful little boats upon castle	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Topic
7	paint	participle · passive	the beautiful little boats upon castle not said here	all				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
8	gild	participle	the beautiful little boats upon castle not said here					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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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