The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 103
Stop there and say: ‘From a crab into a man, from a water-lily into a maiden,’ and ye both will be restored to your own forms.”
Who acts: you, your · What happens: stop, say, restore, form · To what, where: ye, own forms · Speech: someone speaks here
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, your), 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 | Stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Stop | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 say | cc |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stop | conj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 crab | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 crab | punct |
| 7 | From | from | ADP | _ | 9 crab | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 crab | det |
| 9 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | ccomp |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crab | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lily | punct |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 lily | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lily | det |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lily | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 water | punct |
| 18 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crab | appos |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 maiden | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 maiden | det |
| 21 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lily | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lily | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 crab | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 restored | cc |
| 25 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 restored | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 ye | appos |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 restored | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 restored | aux:pass |
| 29 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Stop | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 forms | case |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 forms | nmod:poss |
| 32 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 forms | amod |
| 33 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 restored | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stop | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | imperative | you not said here | there | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | restore | future · passive | ye | your own forms | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to form=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | form | your | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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 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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