The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 107
Fascinated, he watched them one by one step into the canal, and float quietly upon the waters as if they were part of them.
Who acts: bird, syringas · What happens: fascinate, watch, float, be · To what, where: syringas, waters
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, syringas), 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 | Fascinated | fascinate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 watched | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fascinated | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 watched | nsubj |
| 4 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 watched | obj |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 watched | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 step | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 step | nummod |
| 9 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 canal | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 canal | det |
| 12 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 step | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 float | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 float | cc |
| 15 | float | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 watched | parataxis |
| 16 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 15 float | advmod |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 waters | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 waters | det |
| 19 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 float | obl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 part | case |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 part | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 part | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 part | cop |
| 24 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 float | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 part | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fascinate | participle | bird not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | watch | past | bird | syringas = syringa | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme one=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | float | present | the waters | quietly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon water=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | syringas = syringa | as part; of blossoms = blossom | tree rules |
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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