The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 95

Well, it was there that you sent me when you flung me into the river, and though I felt a little strange at first, yet I soon began to look about me, and to see what was happening.

Who acts: world, you, I · What happens: be, send, fling, feel, begin, look · To what, where: me, river · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (world, you, I), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 there	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 there	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 there	cop
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 sent	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 sent	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 sent	nsubj
8	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 sent	obj
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 flung	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 flung	nsubj
12	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sent	advcl
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 flung	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 river	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 river	det
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flung	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 felt	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 felt	cc
19	though	though	SCONJ	_	21 felt	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 felt	nsubj
21	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sent	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 little	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 strange	obl:unmarked
24	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 felt	xcomp
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 first	case
26	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 felt	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 began	punct
28	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	31 began	cc
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 began	nsubj
30	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 began	advmod
31	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sent	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 look	mark
33	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 began	xcomp
34	about	about	ADP	_	35 me	case
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 look	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 see	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 see	cc
38	to	to	PART	_	39 see	mark
39	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 look	conj
40	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	42 happening	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 happening	aux
42	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 see	ccomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	world			there property	tree rules
2	send	past	you	me			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	fling	past	you	me	the river		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent i=Theme into river=Destination
4	feel	past	I			strange property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	begin	past	I			soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	look	to-infinitive	I not said here			about me	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about i=Theme
7	see	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	happen	past · progressive					vn occur-48.3-1 «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 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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