The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 78
They did not get on very fast at this rate, but presently they reached a flat place that in time of flood was full of water, but was now, in the height of summer, only a set of pools, each surrounded with a fringe of plants, with bulrushes standing in the inside of all.
Who acts: parents, flat place, fringe, bulrushes · What happens: not get on, reach, be, surround, stand · To what, where: flat place, each, inside
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, flat place, fringe, bulrushes), 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 | 4 get | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 get | advmod |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 get | advmod |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 fast | advmod |
| 7 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 get | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 rate | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 rate | det |
| 10 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fast | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reached | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 reached | cc |
| 13 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 15 reached | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 reached | nsubj |
| 15 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 17 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 place | amod |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reached | obj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 full | nsubj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 full | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 flood | case |
| 23 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 time | nmod |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 full | cop |
| 25 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 place | acl:relcl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 water | case |
| 27 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 full | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 now | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 now | cc |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 now | cop |
| 31 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 get | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 height | punct |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 height | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 height | det |
| 35 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | parataxis |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 summer | case |
| 37 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 height | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 set | punct |
| 39 | only | only | ADV | _ | 41 set | advmod |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 set | det |
| 41 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 height | conj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 pools | case |
| 43 | pools | pool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 set | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 surrounded | punct |
| 45 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 46 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 height | acl |
| 47 | with | with | ADP | _ | 49 fringe | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 fringe | det |
| 49 | fringe | fringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 plants | case |
| 51 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 fringe | nmod |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 bulrushes | punct |
| 53 | with | with | ADP | _ | 54 bulrushes | case |
| 54 | bulrushes | bulrush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 55 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 54 bulrushes | acl |
| 56 | in | in | ADP | _ | 58 inside | case |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 58 inside | det |
| 58 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 standing | obl |
| 59 | of | of | ADP | _ | 60 all | case |
| 60 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 58 inside | nmod |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get on | past · do-support | parents = parent | fast property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | parents = parent | a flat place | presently property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | a flat place | time | of water; full property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | past | now property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | surround | participle · passive | a fringe of plants | each | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 6 | stand | gerund | bulrushes not said here | the inside of all | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in inside=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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