The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 35
‘The water is getting hot, and it makes the fish jump,’ she replied; but soon the noise grew louder and like cries.
Who acts: water, fish, Groac’h, noise · What happens: get, make, jump, reply, grow
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 (water, fish, Groac’h, noise), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 getting | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 water | det |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 getting | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 getting | aux |
| 5 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 getting | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 makes | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 makes | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 makes | nsubj |
| 10 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 getting | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fish | det |
| 12 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 jump | nsubj |
| 13 | jump | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 makes | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | SCONJ | _ | 17 replied | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 replied | nsubj |
| 17 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 jump | ccomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 grew | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 grew | cc |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 grew | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 noise | det |
| 22 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grew | nsubj |
| 23 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 makes | parataxis |
| 24 | louder | loud | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 grew | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 cries | cc |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 cries | case |
| 27 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 grew | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 getting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · progressive | the water | hot property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | make | present | water | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | jump | present | the fish | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | Groac’h = groac'h | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | grow | past | the noise | loud, soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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