The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 113
The current carried them down the stream, but nowhere could he see the mountain ash.
Who acts: current, prince · What happens: carry down, see · To what, where: roots, mountain ash
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 (current, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 current | det |
| 2 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | carried | carry | 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 carried | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 carried | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stream | det |
| 7 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 10 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 see | advmod |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 carried | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ash | det |
| 15 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ash | compound |
| 16 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry down | past | the current | roots = root | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme they=Beneficiary stream=Value | ||||
| 2 | see | could | prince | the mountain ash | nowhere property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ash=Stimulus |
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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