The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 30
Then Covan sped to the lake which led to the land of the Sun, where the duck with the green body and the golden neck was swimming among the water-lilies.
Who acts: Covan, lake, duck · What happens: speed, lead, swim · To what, where: lake, water lilies
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Covan, lake, duck), 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 sped | advmod |
| 2 | Covan | Covan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sped | nsubj |
| 3 | sped | speed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 lake | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lake | det |
| 6 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sped | obl |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 led | nsubj |
| 8 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lake | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 land | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 land | det |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 led | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Sun | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sun | det |
| 14 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 land | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 swimming | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 swimming | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 duck | det |
| 18 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 swimming | nsubj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 body | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 body | det |
| 21 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 body | amod |
| 22 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 duck | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 neck | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 neck | det |
| 25 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 neck | amod |
| 26 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 duck | conj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 swimming | aux |
| 28 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 Sun | acl:relcl |
| 29 | among | among | ADP | _ | 33 lilies | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 lilies | det |
| 31 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 lilies | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 water | punct |
| 33 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 swimming | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speed | past | Covan | the lake | then | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to lake=Destination | |||
| 2 | lead | past | the lake | to the land of the Sun | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to land=Patient | ||||
| 3 | swim | past · progressive | the duck with the green body and the golden neck | the water lilies | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among lily=Trajectory |
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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