The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 83

And, best of all, she loved to while away the hours in a shady fir-wood, seated upon the bank of a little stream, into which she would cast the flowers she had gathered and watch them float away.

Who acts: best, princess, flowers · What happens: love, while away, seat, cast, gather, watch · To what, where: shady fir wood, flowers

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 (best, princess, flowers), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 loved	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 best	punct
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 loved	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 best	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 loved	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 loved	nsubj
8	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 while	mark
10	while	while	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 loved	xcomp
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 while	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hours	det
13	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 while	obl:unmarked
14	in	in	ADP	_	19 wood	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 wood	det
16	shady	shady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 wood	amod
17	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wood	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 fir	punct
19	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 while	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seated	punct
21	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 wood	acl
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 bank	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bank	det
24	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seated	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 stream	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 stream	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stream	amod
28	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bank	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 cast	punct
30	into	into	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 cast	obl
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 cast	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 cast	aux
34	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 while	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 flowers	det
36	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 cast	obj
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 gathered	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 gathered	aux
39	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 flowers	acl:relcl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 watch	cc
41	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 while	conj
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 watch	obj
43	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 watch	xcomp
44	away	away	ADV	_	43 float	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	best					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	while away not said to happen	to-infinitive	best not said here		a shady fir wood	hour	away property	tree rules
3	seat	participle		a shady fir wood not said here			upon the bank of a little stream	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
4	cast	would	princess	the flowers				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent flower=Material into which=Product
5	gather	past · perfect	princess	the flowers not said here				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme
6	watch	infinitive	best not said here	flowers = flower				tree rules
7	float away	infinitive	flowers = flower not said here				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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