The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 52
When she saw the image she said to her nurse: “Find out who is reflected in the water, and where he lives.”
Who acts: princess, water · What happens: see, say, find out, reflect, live · To what, where: image, nurse, water · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (princess, water), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 image | det |
| 5 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 nurse | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 10 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Find | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Find | punct |
| 13 | Find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 Find | compound:prt |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 reflected | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 reflected | aux:pass |
| 17 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 Find | ccomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reflected | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lives | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lives | cc |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 lives | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 lives | nsubj |
| 25 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 lives | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | princess | the image | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer image=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | princess | princess's nurse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to nurse=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | find out in a quote | infinitive | princess not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | reflect in a quote | present · passive | the water | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | live in a quote | present | water | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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