The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 67
In an instant the river was covered with bobbing heads all swimming their fastest towards the king, who had been carried far down by the swift current.
Who acts: swift current · What happens: cover, swim, carry · To what, where: river, king
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swift current), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 covered | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 river | det |
| 5 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 covered | aux:pass |
| 7 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 heads | case |
| 9 | bobbing | bobbing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heads | compound |
| 10 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 covered | obl |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 swimming | advmod |
| 12 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 fastest | csubj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fastest | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 covered | parataxis |
| 15 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 17 king | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fastest | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 carried | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 carried | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 carried | aux:pass |
| 22 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 king | acl:relcl |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 down | advmod |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 carried | advmod |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 current | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 current | det |
| 27 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 current | amod |
| 28 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carried | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | the river | with bobbing heads; in a instant | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in instant=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swim | gerund | all property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | carry | past · perfect · passive | the swift current | the king | down property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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