The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 50
In a pool of the river a whale was resting, blowing water into the air and making a lovely fountain.
Who acts: whale · What happens: rest, blow, make · To what, where: pool, water, air, lovely fountain
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whale), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 pool | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pool | det |
| 3 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 resting | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 river | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pool | nmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 whale | det |
| 8 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 resting | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 resting | aux |
| 10 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 blowing | punct |
| 12 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 resting | conj |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blowing | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 air | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 air | det |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blowing | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 making | cc |
| 18 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 resting | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fountain | det |
| 20 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fountain | amod |
| 21 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 making | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 resting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past · progressive | a whale | a pool of the river | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in pool=Location | ||||
| 2 | blow | gerund | a whale not said here | water | the air | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent water=Material into air=Product | |||
| 3 | make | gerund | a whale not said here | a lovely fountain | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fountain=Product |
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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