The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 43
Instead, she lives at the bottom of the lake, and has now grown into a young woman.”
Who acts: wife · What happens: live, grow · To what, where: bottom
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | Instead | instead | ADV | _ | 4 lives | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Instead | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lives | nsubj |
| 4 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 bottom | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bottom | det |
| 7 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lives | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 lake | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lake | det |
| 10 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bottom | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grown | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 grown | cc |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 grown | aux |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 grown | advmod |
| 15 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 lives | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 woman | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 woman | det |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 woman | amod |
| 19 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grown | obl:agent |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lives | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | wife | the bottom of the lake | instead property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bottom=Location | |||
| 2 | grow | present · perfect | wife not said here | now | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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