The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 77
Take your baby and bathe in that cool place where the boughs of the tree stretch far over the water.’
Who acts: you, boughs · What happens: take, bathe, stretch · To what, where: baby, water
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, boughs), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 baby | nmod:poss |
| 3 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bathe | cc |
| 5 | bathe | bathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 place | det |
| 8 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 place | amod |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bathe | obl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 stretch | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boughs | det |
| 12 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stretch | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 boughs | nmod |
| 16 | stretch | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 place | acl:relcl |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 water | advmod |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stretch | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | your baby | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bathe | present | you not said here | in that cool place | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in place=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stretch | present | the boughs of the tree | the water | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over water=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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