The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 89
So it was the beggar and not Toueno-Boueno who was flung into the water.
Who acts: knot · What happens: be, fling · To what, where: beggar, water
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knot), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 beggar | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beggar | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beggar | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beggar | det |
| 5 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Toueno | cc |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 Toueno | advmod |
| 8 | Toueno | Toueno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 beggar | conj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Boueno | punct |
| 10 | Boueno | Boueno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Toueno | conj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 flung | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 flung | aux:pass |
| 13 | flung | fling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 beggar | acl:relcl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flung | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beggar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | knot | the beggar and Toueno and Boueno | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fling | past · passive | the beggar and Toueno and Boueno | the water | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme into water=Destination |
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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