The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 81
But as he stooped down the water gave a sudden fizzle, and splashed into the fox’s eyes, blinding him.
Who acts: salmon · What happens: stoop down, give, splash, blind · To what, where: water, sudden fizzle, eyes, salmon
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (salmon), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 gave | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 stooped | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stooped | nsubj |
| 4 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gave | advcl |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 stooped | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stooped | obj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fizzle | det |
| 10 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fizzle | amod |
| 11 | fizzle | fizzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 splashed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 splashed | cc |
| 14 | splashed | splash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 gave | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 eyes | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fox | det |
| 17 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 fox | case |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 splashed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 blinding | punct |
| 21 | blinding | blind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 splashed | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 blinding | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stoop down | past | salmon | the water | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | a sudden fizzle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fizzle=Theme | |||||
| 3 | splash | participle | the fox's eyes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into eye=Destination | |||||
| 4 | blind | gerund | salmon | 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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