The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 128
The fisherman and his wife stood aghast on the doorstep, holding on fast by the doorpost, while the foam splashed over their faces.
Who acts: fisherman, foam · What happens: stand, hold on, splash · To what, where: doorstep, faces
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman, foam), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fisherman | det |
| 2 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wife | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fisherman | conj |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | aghast | aghast | ADV | _ | 6 stood | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 doorstep | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 doorstep | det |
| 10 | doorstep | doorstep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 holding | punct |
| 12 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 stood | advcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 holding | compound:prt |
| 14 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 holding | advmod |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 doorpost | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 doorpost | det |
| 17 | doorpost | doorpost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 holding | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 splashed | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 splashed | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 foam | det |
| 21 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 splashed | nsubj |
| 22 | splashed | splash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stood | parataxis |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 faces | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 faces | nmod:poss |
| 25 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 splashed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the fisherman and fisherman's wife | the doorstep | aghast property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on doorstep=Location | |||
| 2 | hold on | gerund | the fisherman and fisherman's wife not said here | by the doorpost; fast property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by doorpost=Location | ||||
| 3 | splash | past | the foam | things's faces | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over face=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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