The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 51
I went up to the tree beneath which stood the fountain, and filling the silver bowl with water, emptied it on the marble slab.
Who acts: I, tree · What happens: go up, stand, fill, empty · To what, where: fountain, silver bowl, marble slab
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, tree), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 stood | nsubj |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tree | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fountain | det |
| 11 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 filling | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 filling | cc |
| 14 | filling | fill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 went | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bowl | det |
| 16 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bowl | compound |
| 17 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filling | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 water | case |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filling | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 emptied | punct |
| 21 | emptied | empty | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 emptied | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 slab | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 slab | det |
| 25 | marble | marble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 slab | amod |
| 26 | slab | slab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 emptied | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | I | to the tree | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the tree | the fountain | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fountain=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fill | gerund | I not said here | the silver bowl | with water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bowl=Patient with water=Instrument | |||
| 4 | empty | past | I not said here | Fountain | the marble slab | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent it=Source |
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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