The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 16

‘If the brown otter of the stream were only here, he would soon have that egg,’ cried the king; and the next minute there was the brown otter, dripping with water, holding the egg in his mouth.

Who acts: brown otter, otter, next minute · What happens: be, have, cry, drip, hold · To what, where: egg, king, brown otter, mouth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brown otter, otter, next minute), 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	_	16 have	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	11 here	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 otter	det
4	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 otter	amod
5	otter	otter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 here	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 stream	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stream	det
8	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 otter	nmod
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 here	cop
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 here	advmod
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 have	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 here	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 have	aux
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 have	advmod
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 cried	ccomp
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 egg	det
18	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
21	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 king	det
23	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cried	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 otter	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 otter	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 minute	det
27	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 minute	amod
28	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 otter	nsubj
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 was	expl
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 otter	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 otter	det
32	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 otter	amod
33	otter	otter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cried	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 dripping	punct
35	dripping	drip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 otter	acl
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 water	case
37	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 dripping	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 holding	punct
39	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 cried	advcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 egg	det
41	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 holding	obj
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 mouth	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 mouth	nmod:poss
44	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 holding	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the brown otter of the stream			here property	tree rules
2	have	would	otter	that egg		soon property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient
3	cry speech: express	past		the king			tree rules
4	is a	past	the next minute	the brown otter			tree rules
5	drip	gerund	the brown otter not said here			with water	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with water=Theme
6	hold	gerund		the egg	otter's mouth		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in mouth=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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