The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 94

“What could it be?” they asked one of another; “there was not a cloud in the sky, yet the water had risen higher already than they had ever known it do before.”

Who acts: Bunyip, tops · What happens: be, ask, not be, rise, know, do · To what, where: one, cloud, sky, water, tops · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Bunyip, tops), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 be	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 be	obj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 be	aux
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 be	nsubj
5	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	ccomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 be	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 be	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	nsubj
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 asked	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 another	case
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 one	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 cloud	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 was	punct
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 was	expl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 cloud	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 cloud	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cloud	det
19	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 sky	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sky	det
22	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cloud	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 risen	punct
24	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	28 risen	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 water	det
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 risen	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 risen	aux
28	risen	rise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 asked	parataxis
29	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 risen	xcomp
30	already	already	ADV	_	35 known	advmod
31	than	than	SCONJ	_	35 known	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 known	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 known	aux
34	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 known	advmod
35	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 risen	advcl
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 do	nsubj
37	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 known	ccomp
38	before	before	ADV	_	37 do	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	can in a quote	could	Bunyip					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	tops = top	one of another				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not is a in a quote	past		a cloud	the sky			tree rules
4	rise in a quote	past · perfect · passive		the water			high property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5	know in a quote	past · perfect · passive		tops = top		ever		tree rules
6	do in a quote	present	Bunyip				before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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