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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 30

There was water close at hand, and the prince made his ablution, and then said: “O my heart! a wonderful task lies upon you.”

Who acts: water, prince, heart · What happens: be, make, say, lie · To what, where: ablution · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, prince, heart), 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

explnsubjamodcaseoblpunctccdetnsubjparataxisnmod:possobjpunctccadvmodconjpunctpunctdiscoursenmod:possnsubjpunctdetamodnsubjccompcaseoblpunctpunctrootTherePRONwasVERBwaterNOUNcloseADJatADPhandNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETprinceNOUNmadeVERBhisPRONablutionNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJthenADVsaidVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTOINTJmyPRONheartNOUN!PUNCTaDETwonderfulADJtaskNOUNliesVERBuponADPyouPRON.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheretherePRONPronType=Dem2 wasexpl
2wasbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing2 wasnsubj
4closecloseADJDegree=Pos3 wateramod
5atatADP_6 handcase
6handhandNOUNNumber=Sing4 closeobl
7,,PUNCT_11 madepunct
8andandCCONJ_11 madecc
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 princedet
10princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing11 madensubj
11mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 wasparataxis
12hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 ablutionnmod:poss
13ablutionablutionNOUNNumber=Sing11 madeobj
14,,PUNCT_17 saidpunct
15andandCCONJ_17 saidcc
16thenthenADVPronType=Dem17 saidadvmod
17saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 madeconj
18::PUNCT_22 heartpunct
19“"PUNCT_22 heartpunct
20OoINTJ_22 heartdiscourse
21mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 heartnmod:poss
22heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing27 liesnsubj
23!!PUNCT_22 heartpunct
24aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 taskdet
25wonderfulwonderfulADJDegree=Pos26 taskamod
26tasktaskNOUNNumber=Sing27 liesnsubj
27lieslieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin17 saidccomp
28uponuponADP_29 youcase
29youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs27 liesobl
30..PUNCT_2 waspunct
31”"PUNCT_2 waspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bepastwatertherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2makepastthe princeprince's ablutionvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ablution=Product
3say speech: expresspastthe prince not said herethenvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4lie in a quotepresentmy heartupon youvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon you=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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