The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 97

Safe! why only the tops of the trees remained above that sea of water, and these were fast disappearing.

Who acts: tops, these · What happens: remain, disappear · To what, where: sea

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 (tops, these), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3282:728): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Safe	punct
3	why	why	INTJ	_	10 remained	discourse
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 tops	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tops	det
6	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 remained	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 trees	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tops	nmod
10	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Safe	parataxis
11	above	above	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 remained	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 water	case
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sea	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 disappearing	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 disappearing	cc
18	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 disappearing	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 disappearing	aux
20	fast	fast	ADV	_	21 disappearing	advmod
21	disappearing	disappear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 remained	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past	the tops of the trees			that sea of water			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above sea=Location
2	disappear	past · progressive	these					fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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