The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 67
In and out of it flowed water like attar.
Who acts: reservoir · What happens: flow · To what, where: water
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 (reservoir), 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 | _ | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 1 In | cc |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 flowed | mark |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 flowed | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 flowed | nsubj |
| 6 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 and | advcl |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flowed | obj |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 attar | case |
| 9 | attar | attar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 water | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 In | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | past | reservoir | water | like attar | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=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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