The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 109

Again he heard the water-lily’s lament, and, hesitating no longer, smeared himself all over with mud, and, saying: “From a man into a crab,” plunged into the river.

Who acts: prince, water lily · What happens: hear, hesitate, smear, say, plunge, lament · To what, where: lament, prince, man, river · 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 (prince, water lily), 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	Again	again	ADV	_	3 heard	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lily	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lily	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 water	punct
7	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lament	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 lily	case
9	lament	lament	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hesitating	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hesitating	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hesitating	punct
13	hesitating	hesitate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 heard	conj
14	no	no	ADV	_	15 longer	advmod
15	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 hesitating	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 smeared	punct
17	smeared	smear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 smeared	obj
19	all	all	ADV	_	20 over	advmod
20	over	over	ADV	_	17 smeared	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 mud	case
22	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 smeared	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saying	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 saying	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saying	punct
26	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 heard	advcl
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 man	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 man	punct
29	From	from	ADP	_	31 man	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 man	det
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 saying	ccomp
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 crab	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 crab	det
34	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 man	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 man	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 man	punct
37	plunged	plunge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 man	acl
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 river	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 river	det
40	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 plunged	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	prince	the water lily's lament		again		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lament=Stimulus
2	hesitate	gerund	prince not said here				long property	vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	smear	past	prince not said here	prince			with mud; over property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination with mud=Theme
4	say speech: assert	gerund	prince not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	plunge	participle		a man into a crab not said here	the river			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into river=Initial_Location
6	lament		the water lily					nom lament «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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