The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 11
“The water is still rushing in my ears,” answered he; “but wait a little, that will soon pass off.”
Who acts: water, that · What happens: rush, answer, wait, pass off · To what, where: ears, water, little · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, that), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 rushing | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 water | det |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rushing | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rushing | aux |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 rushing | advmod |
| 6 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 answered | ccomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 ears | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ears | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rushing | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rushing | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 rushing | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 answered | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 wait | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 wait | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 wait | cc |
| 17 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 answered | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 little | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wait | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 pass | punct |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 pass | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 pass | aux |
| 23 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 pass | advmod |
| 24 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wait | advcl |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 pass | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush in a quote | present · progressive | the water | my ears | still | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | water | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wait in a quote | present | a little | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pass off in a quote | future | that | soon property | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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