The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 97

When they reached the deepest part of the water, she began to hum the words of the magic rhyme, altering the words to suit the longing of her heart:

Who acts: casks, wife, heart · What happens: reach, begin, hum, alter, suit, word · To what, where: deepest part, words, longing, magic rhyme

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 (casks, wife, heart), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 began	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 part	det
5	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 part	amod
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 part	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 began	nsubj
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 hum	mark
14	hum	hum	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 words	det
16	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hum	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 rhyme	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 rhyme	det
19	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 rhyme	amod
20	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 words	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 altering	punct
22	altering	alter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 began	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 words	det
24	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 altering	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 suit	mark
26	suit	suit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 altering	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 longing	det
28	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 suit	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 heart	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 heart	nmod:poss
31	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 longing	nmod
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	reach	past	casks = cask	the deepest part of the water	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent part=Theme
2	begin	past	wife		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	hum	to-infinitive	wife not said here	the words of the magic rhyme	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
4	alter	gerund	wife not said here	the words	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent word=Patient
5	suit	to-infinitive	wife not said here	the longing of wife's heart	tree rules
6	word			the magic rhyme	nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient
7	long		wife's heart		nom longing «feeling intransitive»: of=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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