The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 44
Just then one of the attendants came to the water’s edge to fill a cup, and though the prince was in hiding, his face was reflected in the water.
Who acts: one, prince · What happens: come, fill, hide, reflect · To what, where: edge, cup, face, water
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, prince), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 came | advmod |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 came | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 attendants | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 attendants | det |
| 6 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 edge | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 edge | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 water | case |
| 12 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 fill | mark |
| 14 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 came | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cup | det |
| 16 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fill | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hiding | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hiding | cc |
| 19 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 24 hiding | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 prince | det |
| 21 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hiding | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 hiding | aux |
| 23 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 24 hiding | mark |
| 24 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 came | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 reflected | punct |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 face | nmod:poss |
| 27 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 reflected | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 reflected | aux:pass |
| 29 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 came | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 water | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 water | det |
| 32 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 reflected | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | one of the attendants | the water's edge | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to edge=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | fill | to-infinitive | one of the attendants not said here | a cup | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cup=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hide | past · progressive | the prince | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | reflect | past · passive | prince's face | the water | tree rules |
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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