The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 129
Pivi went, and deep in the clear water they saw a monstrous shell-fish, like an oyster, as big as a rock, with the shell wide open.
Who acts: Pivi · What happens: go, see · To what, where: monstrous shell fish
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 (Pivi), 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 | Pivi | Pivi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 deep | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 deep | cc |
| 5 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 8 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 water | amod |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deep | obl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 water | acl:relcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fish | det |
| 13 | monstrous | monstrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fish | amod |
| 14 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fish | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 shell | punct |
| 16 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 oyster | punct |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 oyster | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 oyster | det |
| 20 | oyster | oyster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 big | punct |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 big | advmod |
| 23 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 oyster | amod |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 rock | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 rock | det |
| 26 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 big | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 shell | punct |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 shell | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 shell | det |
| 30 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 big | obl |
| 31 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 open | advmod |
| 32 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 shell | amod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Pivi | like a oyster; deep property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Pivi | a monstrous shell fish | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus |
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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