The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 57

And Dilah came from the waters holding out her hands to Masilo and Thakane, and in her place the cattle sank into the lake, and were driven by the old woman to the great city filled with people, which lies at the bottom.

Who acts: Dilah, waters, cattle, old woman, people · What happens: come, hold out, sink, drive, fill, lie · To what, where: waters, hands, Masilo, place, great city, 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 (Dilah, waters, cattle, old woman), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 came	cc
2	Dilah	Dilah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 waters	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 waters	det
6	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
7	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 waters	acl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 holding	compound:prt
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hands	nmod:poss
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 holding	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Masilo	case
12	Masilo	Masilo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 holding	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Thakane	cc
14	Thakane	Thakane	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Masilo	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sank	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sank	cc
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 place	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 place	nmod:poss
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sank	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cattle	det
21	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sank	nsubj
22	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	advcl
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 lake	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 lake	det
25	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sank	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 driven	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 driven	cc
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 driven	aux:pass
29	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 came	conj
30	by	by	ADP	_	33 woman	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 woman	det
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 woman	amod
33	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 driven	obl
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 city	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 city	det
36	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 city	amod
37	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 driven	obl
38	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 city	acl
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 people	case
40	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 filled	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 lies	punct
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 lies	nsubj
43	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 people	acl:relcl
44	at	at	ADP	_	46 bottom	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 bottom	det
46	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 lies	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Dilah			the waters		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from water=Initial_Location
2	hold out	gerund	the waters not said here	Thakane's hands	Masilo and Thakane			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	sink	past	the cattle			Thakane's place	into the lake	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	drive	past · passive	the old woman			the great city		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to city=Trajectory
5	fill	participle		the great city not said here			with people	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with people=Instrument
6	lie	present	people			the bottom		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bottom=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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