The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 87

‘I will make myself a fire,’ he thought, and thus he did, and by and bye a smooth brown head peered at him from the water, and a long body followed it.

Who acts: I, king, smooth brown head, long body · What happens: make, think, do, bye, peer, follow · To what, where: myself, water, head

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, king, smooth brown head, long body), 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	_	4 make	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 make	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 make	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	nsubj
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 make	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 did	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 did	cc
14	thus	thus	ADV	_	16 did	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 did	nsubj
16	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thought	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bye	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bye	cc
19	by	by	SCONJ	_	21 bye	mark
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bye	cc
21	bye	bye	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 make	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 head	det
23	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 head	amod
24	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 head	amod
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 peered	nsubj
26	peered	peer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 bye	ccomp
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 peered	obl
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 water	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 water	det
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 peered	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 followed	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 followed	cc
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 body	det
35	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 body	amod
36	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 followed	nsubj
37	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 peered	conj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 followed	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	future	I	myself			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset myself=Beneficiary fire=Product
2	think speech: other	past	king				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	do	past	king			thus property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bye	infinitive					tree rules
5	peer	past	a smooth brown head		the water	at king	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
6	follow	past	a long body	head			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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