The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 20

At last the waters parted softly, and floating on the surface he saw the beautiful woman whom he had fled from only a few nights before.

Who acts: last waters, manner · What happens: part, float, see, flee · To what, where: surface, beautiful woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last waters, manner), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 waters	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 waters	det
4	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 parted	nsubj
5	parted	part	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	softly	softly	ADV	_	5 parted	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
9	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 saw	csubj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 surface	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 surface	det
12	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 floating	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 parted	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obj
18	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 fled	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fled	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fled	aux
21	fled	flee	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 woman	acl:relcl
22	from	from	ADP	_	26 nights	case
23	only	only	ADV	_	26 nights	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 nights	det
25	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 nights	amod
26	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fled	obl
27	before	before	ADV	_	26 nights	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 parted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	part	past	the last waters				softly property	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	float	gerund			the surface			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on surface=Trajectory
3	see	past	manner	the beautiful woman				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
4	flee	past · perfect	manner	the beautiful woman		night		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme whom=Initial_Location

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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