The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 107
Then there was a swish of water at his feet, and out peeped the head of the famous otter Doran-donn of the stream.
Who acts: water · What happens: be, swish · To what, where: feet
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water), 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 | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 peeped | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 swish | det |
| 5 | swish | swish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swish | nmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 feet | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 feet | nmod:poss |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swish | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 peeped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 peeped | cc |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 peeped | advmod |
| 14 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 head | det |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 peeped | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 otter | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 otter | det |
| 19 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 otter | amod |
| 20 | otter | otter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 head | nmod |
| 21 | Doran | Doran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 donn | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Doran | punct |
| 23 | donn | donn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 otter | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 stream | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 stream | det |
| 26 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 donn | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 peeped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | out, peep property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | swish | water | swish's feet | nom swish «event intransitive»: of=agent at=place |
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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