The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 12
The red rocks had become white marble and alabaster; the stream that murmured and struggled before in its rocky bed, flowed in silence now in its smooth channel, from which a clear fountain leapt, to fall again in showers of diamond drops, now on this side now on that, as the wandering breeze scattered it.
Who acts: red rocks, stream, wandering breeze · What happens: become, murmur, struggle, flow, leapt, fall · To what, where: white marble, rocky bed, silence, showers, stream
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (red rocks, stream, wandering breeze), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rocks | det |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rocks | amod |
| 3 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 become | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 become | aux |
| 5 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 marble | amod |
| 7 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 become | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 alabaster | cc |
| 9 | alabaster | alabaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marble | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 murmured | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stream | det |
| 12 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 murmured | nsubj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 murmured | nsubj |
| 14 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 become | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 struggled | cc |
| 16 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 murmured | conj |
| 17 | before | before | ADV | _ | 16 struggled | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 bed | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 bed | nmod:poss |
| 20 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bed | amod |
| 21 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 struggled | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 flowed | punct |
| 23 | flowed | flow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 murmured | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 silence | case |
| 25 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flowed | obl |
| 26 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 flowed | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 channel | case |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 channel | nmod:poss |
| 29 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 channel | amod |
| 30 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flowed | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 leapt | punct |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 which | case |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 leapt | nsubj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 leapt | det |
| 35 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 leapt | amod |
| 36 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 leapt | compound |
| 37 | leapt | leapt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flowed | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 fall | punct |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 fall | mark |
| 40 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 murmured | advcl |
| 41 | again | again | ADV | _ | 40 fall | advmod |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 showers | case |
| 43 | showers | shower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 fall | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 drops | case |
| 45 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 drops | compound |
| 46 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 showers | nmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 side | punct |
| 48 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 51 side | advmod |
| 49 | on | on | ADP | _ | 51 side | case |
| 50 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 51 side | det |
| 51 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fall | obl |
| 52 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 51 side | advmod |
| 53 | on | on | ADP | _ | 54 that | case |
| 54 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 51 side | nmod |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 scattered | punct |
| 56 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 60 scattered | mark |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 breeze | det |
| 58 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 59 breeze | amod |
| 59 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 scattered | nsubj |
| 60 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 murmured | conj |
| 61 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 60 scattered | obj |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past · perfect | the red rocks | white marble and alabaster | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | murmur speech: other | past | the stream | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | struggle | past | the stream not said here | stream's rocky bed | before property | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | flow | participle | the stream not said here | silence | now | in stream's smooth channel | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in silence=Location | ||
| 5 | leapt | tree rules | |||||||
| 6 | fall | to-infinitive | the stream not said here | showers of diamond drops | again | on this side on that | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in shower=Location | ||
| 7 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 8 | scatter | past | the wandering breeze | stream | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 9 | channel | stream | nom channel «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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