The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 101
Let the water flow all over the flower, and drift with the current until thou comest to a mountain ash tree on the left bank.
Who acts: you, water, thou · What happens: let, flow, drift, come · To what, where: flower, ash tree
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, water, thou), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 water | det |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flow | nsubj |
| 4 | flow | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 flower | advmod |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 flower | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flower | det |
| 8 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flow | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drift | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drift | cc |
| 11 | drift | drift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 current | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 current | det |
| 14 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drift | obl |
| 15 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 comest | mark |
| 16 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 comest | nsubj |
| 17 | comest | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 drift | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 tree | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 tree | det |
| 20 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ash | compound |
| 21 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tree | compound |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 comest | obl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 bank | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bank | det |
| 25 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bank | amod |
| 26 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tree | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | flow | present | the water | the flower | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over flower=Location | ||||
| 3 | drift | present | with the current | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | present | thou | a ash tree on the left bank | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=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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