The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 63

Maie sank to the bottom like a stone, but, stretching out her arms and legs, she rose to the surface, where she found the fiddler’s fiddle, and used it as a float.

Who acts: Maie · What happens: sink, stretch out, rise, find, use · To what, where: arms, surface, fiddle

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maie), 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	Maie	Maie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sank	nsubj
2	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 bottom	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bottom	det
5	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sank	obl
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 stone	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stone	det
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bottom	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rose	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 rose	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stretching	punct
12	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 rose	advcl
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 stretching	compound:prt
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 arms	nmod:poss
15	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stretching	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 legs	cc
17	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 arms	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stretching	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 rose	nsubj
20	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sank	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 surface	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 surface	det
23	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rose	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 found	punct
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 found	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 found	nsubj
27	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 rose	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fiddler	det
29	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fiddle	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 fiddler	case
31	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 found	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 used	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 used	cc
34	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sank	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 used	obj
36	as	as	ADP	_	38 float	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 float	det
38	float	float	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 used	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sink	past	Maie			to the bottom like a stone	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	stretch out	gerund	Maie not said here	Maie's arms and legs			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
3	rise	past	Maie		the surface		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial_Location
4	find	past	Maie	the fiddler's fiddle			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiddle=Topic
5	use	past	Maie not said here	fiddle		as a float	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Duration as float=Attribute

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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