The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 75
But the youngest did not finish hers, and when no one was looking, stole off to the fountain in the forest where the little fish was swimming about.
Who acts: youngest, one, little fish · What happens: not finish, look, steal off, swim · To what, where: stream
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 (youngest, one, little fish), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 finish | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youngest | det |
| 3 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 finish | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 finish | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 finish | advmod |
| 6 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 finish | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stole | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stole | cc |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 looking | mark |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looking | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 looking | aux |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 stole | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looking | punct |
| 16 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 finish | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 stole | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 fountain | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fountain | det |
| 20 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stole | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 forest | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 forest | det |
| 23 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fountain | nmod |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 swimming | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fish | det |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fish | amod |
| 27 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 swimming | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 swimming | aux |
| 29 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 forest | acl:relcl |
| 30 | about | about | ADV | _ | 29 swimming | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 finish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not finish | past · do-support | the youngest | stream | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality her=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | look | past · progressive | no one | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | steal off | past | the youngest not said here | to the fountain in the forest | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | swim | past · progressive | the little fish | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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