The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 101
As she drew near the pond she saw a great procession of fishes advancing to meet her, crying in hoarse tones:
Who acts: Bellah, fishes · What happens: draw, see, advance, meet, cry, proceed · To what, where: pond, great procession, Bellah, hoarse tones
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bellah, fishes), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 drew | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 pond | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pond | det |
| 6 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obl |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pond | acl:relcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 procession | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 procession | amod |
| 11 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fishes | case |
| 13 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 procession | nmod |
| 14 | advancing | advance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 fishes | acl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 meet | mark |
| 16 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 advancing | xcomp |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 meet | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 crying | punct |
| 19 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 advancing | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 tones | case |
| 21 | hoarse | hoarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tones | amod |
| 22 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 crying | obl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Bellah | the pond | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Bellah | a great procession of fishes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer procession=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | advance | gerund | fishes not said here | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | fishes not said here | Bellah | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | gerund | fishes not said here | hoarse tones | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tone=Location | ||||
| 6 | proceed | fishes | nom procession «event 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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