The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 69
How delicious it was diving and swimming and floating in the dark forest, where the trees were so thick that you could hardly see the sun!
Who acts: river, trees, you · What happens: dive, swim, float, be, see · To what, where: dark forest, sun
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river, trees, you), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 delicious | advmod |
| 2 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 diving | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 diving | aux |
| 5 | diving | dive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 delicious | parataxis |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 swimming | cc |
| 7 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 diving | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 floating | cc |
| 9 | floating | float | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 diving | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 forest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 12 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 forest | amod |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 floating | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thick | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 thick | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 trees | det |
| 17 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 thick | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 thick | cop |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 thick | advmod |
| 20 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 forest | acl:relcl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 see | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | aux |
| 24 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 25 see | advmod |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 thick | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sun | det |
| 27 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 see | obj |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 delicious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dive | past · progressive | river | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | swim | gerund | river not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | float | gerund | river not said here | the dark forest | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the trees | thick property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see | could | you | the sun | hardly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus |
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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