The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 33
A splashing noise near by drew him down to a valley through which ran a large river, and up a waterfall some salmon were leaping.
Who acts: splashing noise, salmon · What happens: draw down, run, leap · To what, where: noise, large river, waterfall
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (splashing noise, salmon), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 noise | det |
| 2 | splashing | splashing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 noise | compound |
| 3 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 drew | mark |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 6 drew | mark |
| 6 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 noise | acl:relcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 drew | obj |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 drew | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 valley | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 valley | det |
| 11 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drew | obl |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 drew | obj |
| 14 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 river | det |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 river | amod |
| 17 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ran | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 leaping | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 leaping | cc |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 waterfall | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 waterfall | det |
| 22 | waterfall | waterfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 leaping | obl |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 salmon | det |
| 24 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 leaping | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 leaping | aux |
| 26 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 ran | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw down | past | a splashing noise not said here | noise | to a valley | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary which=Result | |||
| 2 | run | past | a splashing noise | a large river | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme river=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | leap | past · progressive | some salmon | a waterfall | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up waterfall=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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