The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 71
Then he noticed a yellow water-lily floating on the surface of the water, half hidden by its broad leaves; but flowers do not sing, and in great surprise he waited, hoping to hear more.
Who acts: thought, yellow water lily, flowers · What happens: notice, float, hide, not sing, wait, hope · To what, where: yellow water lily, surface, half, great surprise, more
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 (thought, yellow water lily, flowers), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 noticed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 noticed | nsubj |
| 3 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lily | det |
| 5 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lily | amod |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lily | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 water | punct |
| 8 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 noticed | obj |
| 9 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 lily | acl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 surface | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 surface | det |
| 12 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 floating | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 surface | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 half | punct |
| 17 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 15 water | conj |
| 18 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 half | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 leaves | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 21 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 leaves | amod |
| 22 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hidden | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 sing | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 sing | cc |
| 25 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 sing | nsubj |
| 26 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 sing | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 sing | advmod |
| 28 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 noticed | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 waited | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 waited | cc |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 surprise | case |
| 32 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 surprise | amod |
| 33 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 waited | obl |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 waited | nsubj |
| 35 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 noticed | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 hoping | punct |
| 37 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 waited | advcl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 hear | mark |
| 39 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 hoping | xcomp |
| 40 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 hear | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | thought | a yellow water lily | then | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lily=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | float | gerund | a yellow water lily not said here | the surface of the water and half | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on surface=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | hide | participle | half not said here | by half's broad leaves | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by leaf=Location | ||||
| 4 | not sing speech: express | present · do-support | flowers | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | wait | past | thought | great surprise | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in surprise=Location | ||||
| 6 | hope | gerund | thought not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | hear not said to happen | to-infinitive | thought not said here | more | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer more=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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