The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 20

They even sprang into the water and tried to dive after her, but in vain; they only floated like corks in the enchanted pool, and could not keep under water for a second.

Who acts: playmates · What happens: spring, try, dive, float, enchant, not keep · To what, where: water, enchanted pool

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 (playmates), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sprang	nsubj
2	even	even	ADV	_	3 sprang	advmod
3	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sprang	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tried	cc
8	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sprang	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 dive	mark
10	dive	dive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tried	xcomp
11	after	after	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dive	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 vain	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 vain	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 vain	case
16	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dive	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 floated	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 floated	nsubj
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 floated	advmod
20	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sprang	conj
21	like	like	ADP	_	22 corks	case
22	corks	cork	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 floated	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 pool	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 pool	det
25	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 pool	amod
26	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 floated	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 keep	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 keep	cc
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 keep	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 keep	advmod
31	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 floated	advcl
32	under	under	ADP	_	33 water	case
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 keep	obl
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 second	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 second	det
36	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 keep	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring	past	playmates = playmate	the water			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination
2	try	past	playmates = playmate not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	dive not said to happen	to-infinitive	playmates = playmate not said here		after princess		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	float	past	playmates = playmate	the enchanted pool		like corks	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pool=Trajectory
5	enchant	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	not keep	could	playmates = playmate not said here	water	second		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent under water=Location

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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