The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 84

So she floated gently in to where he was lying, she seized him by the arm, and the waves closed over them both.

Who acts: stream, mermaid · What happens: float, lie, seize, close · To what, where: mermaid, waves

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stream, mermaid), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 floated	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 floated	nsubj
3	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	gently	gently	ADV	_	3 floated	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 where	case
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 where	case
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	3 floated	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lying	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lying	aux
10	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 where	advcl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seized	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seized	nsubj
13	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 floated	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seized	obj
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 arm	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 arm	det
17	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seized	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 waves	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 waves	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 waves	det
21	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 floated	parataxis
22	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 waves	acl
23	over	over	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 closed	obl
25	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	24 them	appos
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 floated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	float	past	stream		gently property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in where=Trajectory
2	lie	past · progressive	mermaid			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	seize	past	stream	mermaid	by the arm	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	close	participle		the waves not said here	over waves = wave	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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