The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 65
Next they plunged into a foaming river, and Covan plunged in after them, though the water came high above his waist.
Who acts: cows, Covan, water · What happens: plunge, plunge in, come · To what, where: foaming river, waist
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 (cows, Covan, 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 3 plunged | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 plunged | nsubj |
| 3 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 river | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 river | det |
| 6 | foaming | foaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 river | compound |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plunged | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 plunged | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 plunged | cc |
| 10 | Covan | Covan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 plunged | nsubj |
| 11 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 plunged | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADV | _ | 11 plunged | advmod |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 plunged | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 16 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 19 came | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 plunged | conj |
| 20 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 came | advmod |
| 21 | above | above | ADP | _ | 23 waist | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 waist | nmod:poss |
| 23 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 plunged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plunge | past | cows = cow | a foaming river | next property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into river=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | plunge in | past | Covan | after cows = cow | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the water | water's waist | high property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above waist=Location |
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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