The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 100
This done, fasten thy claws into the roots and rise with them to the surface.
Who acts: you · What happens: do, fasten, rise · To what, where: This, claws, surface
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fasten | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 done | punct |
| 4 | fasten | fasten | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 claws | nmod:poss |
| 6 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fasten | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 roots | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 roots | det |
| 9 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fasten | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rise | cc |
| 11 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 fasten | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 rise | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 surface | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 surface | det |
| 16 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rise | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fasten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle · passive | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | fasten | imperative | you not said here | thy claws | into the roots | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent claw=Patient into root=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | rise | infinitive | you not said here | the surface | with roots = root | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial_Location |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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