The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 50
Cast her from his arms for ever, Bury her in the rippling river.”
Who acts: you · What happens: cast, bury · To what, where: sun, arms, rippling river
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), 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 | Cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Cast | obj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 arms | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 arms | nmod:poss |
| 5 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cast | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 ever | case |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 1 Cast | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Bury | punct |
| 9 | Bury | bury | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Cast | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 Bury | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 river | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 river | det |
| 13 | rippling | rippling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 river | compound |
| 14 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Bury | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cast | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast | imperative | you not said here | sun | troop's arms | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.material PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent she=Product from arm=Material for ever=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | bury | infinitive | you not said here | sun | the rippling river | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in river=Destination |
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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