The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 34

Now, it is not at all an uncommon thing for balls to tumble into rivers, but in that case they generally either fall to the bottom and stay there, or else bob about on the top of the water close to where they first touched it.

Who acts: ball, girls · What happens: not be, tumble, fall, stay, bob, touch · To what, where: uncommon thing, rivers, case, top, ball

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ball, girls), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 thing	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thing	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thing	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 thing	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	10 thing	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 thing	det
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 thing	det
9	uncommon	uncommon	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 balls	case
12	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 thing	nmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 tumble	mark
14	tumble	tumble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 thing	acl
15	into	into	ADP	_	16 rivers	case
16	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tumble	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fall	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 fall	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 case	case
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 case	det
21	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fall	obl
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fall	nsubj
23	generally	generally	ADV	_	25 fall	advmod
24	either	either	CCONJ	_	25 fall	cc:preconj
25	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 thing	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 bottom	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bottom	det
28	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fall	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 stay	cc
30	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 fall	conj
31	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 stay	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 bob	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 bob	cc
34	else	else	ADV	_	35 bob	advmod
35	bob	bob	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	30 stay	parataxis
36	about	about	ADV	_	35 bob	advmod
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 top	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 top	det
39	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bob	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 water	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 water	det
42	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 top	nmod
43	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 bob	conj
44	to	to	ADP	_	48 touched	case
45	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	48 touched	advmod
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 touched	nsubj
47	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	48 touched	advmod
48	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 close	advcl
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 touched	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	ball		all uncommon thing	now	for balls	tree rules
2	tumble	to-infinitive			rivers			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into river=Initial_Location
3	fall	infinitive	girls = girl		that case		to the bottom; generally property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in case=Location
4	stay	infinitive	girls = girl not said here		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bob	infinitive			the top of the water		about, else property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location
6	touch	past	girls = girl	ball			first property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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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