The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 50

Down went Pivi into the stream, and floated along it, till he floated into a big hollow bamboo, which a woman used for washing her sweet potatoes.

Who acts: Kabo, big hollow bamboo · What happens: go, float, woman, use, wash · To what, where: stream, big hollow bamboo, woman, sweet potatoes

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 (Kabo, big hollow bamboo), 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	Down	down	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	flat
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 stream	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stream	det
6	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 floated	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 floated	cc
9	floated	float	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 went	parataxis
10	along	along	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 floated	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 floated	punct
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 floated	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 floated	nsubj
15	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 floated	conj
16	into	into	ADP	_	20 bamboo	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bamboo	det
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bamboo	amod
19	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bamboo	amod
20	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 floated	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 woman	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 woman	nsubj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 woman	det
24	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bamboo	appos
25	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 woman	acl
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 washing	mark
27	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 used	advcl
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 potatoes	nmod:poss
29	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 potatoes	amod
30	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 washing	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past			the stream	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into stream=Initial_Location
2	float	participle			stream		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along it=Trajectory
3	float	past	Kabo		a big hollow bamboo		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bamboo=Destination
4	woman		a big hollow bamboo				tree rules
5	use	participle		a woman not said here			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wash	gerund		woman's sweet potatoes			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potato=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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