The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 112
He then grasped them and rose to the surface, letting the water flow over the flower.
Who acts: prince · What happens: grasp, rise, let · To what, where: roots, surface, water flow, flower
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grasped | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 grasped | advmod |
| 3 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grasped | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 rose | cc |
| 6 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grasped | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 surface | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 surface | det |
| 9 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 letting | punct |
| 11 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 rose | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 flow | det |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flow | compound |
| 14 | flow | flow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 letting | obj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 flower | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 flower | det |
| 17 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 letting | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grasp | past | prince | roots = root | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | rise | past | prince not said here | the surface | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | let | gerund | prince not said here | the water flow | the flower | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flow=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 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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