The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 19

'For a whole day they floated safely, for though the stream was deep it was very still, and the children took no harm.

Who acts: children, stream · What happens: float, be, take · To what, where: harm

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, stream), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 floated	punct
2	For	for	ADP	_	5 day	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 day	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 floated	obl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 floated	nsubj
7	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	safely	safely	ADV	_	7 floated	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 deep	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 deep	mark
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 deep	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stream	det
13	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 deep	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 deep	cop
15	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 floated	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 still	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 still	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 still	advmod
19	still	still	ADV	_	15 deep	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 took	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 children	det
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 took	nsubj
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 floated	conj
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 harm	det
26	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 took	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 floated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	float	past	children = child		day	safely property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the stream			deep property	tree rules
3	is	past	stream			still property	tree rules
4	take	past	the children	no harm			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Theme

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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