The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 73

So they made their fire to cook some food, right on the edge of a steep bank, which had a deep pool of water lying beneath it at the bottom.

Who acts: fishes, fire, steep bank, deep pool · What happens: make, cook, have, lie, fire · To what, where: fire, edge, food, deep pool, bottom

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fishes, fire, steep bank, deep pool), 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	_	3 made	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fire	nmod:poss
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cook	mark
7	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	xcomp
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 food	det
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cook	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 edge	punct
11	right	right	ADV	_	14 edge	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 edge	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 edge	det
14	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 bank	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bank	det
17	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bank	amod
18	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 edge	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 bank	acl:relcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pool	det
23	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pool	amod
24	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 water	case
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pool	nmod
27	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 pool	acl
28	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 lying	obl
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 bottom	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bottom	det
32	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lying	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	fishes = fish	fishes's fire	the edge of a steep bank		tree rules
2	cook	to-infinitive	fishes's fire not said here	some food			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient
3	have	past	a steep bank	a deep pool of water			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pool=Patient
4	lie	gerund	a deep pool of water not said here		the bottom	beneath bank	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath it=Location
5	fire		fishes = fish				nom fire «event transitive»: poss=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 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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