The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 78

They said that the yellow water-lily could be none other than their sister, who was not dead, but transformed by the magic ball.

Who acts: maidens, yellow water lily, sister · What happens: say, be, not be, transform · To what, where: none · 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 (maidens, yellow water lily, sister), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 none	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def 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	11 none	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 none	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 none	cop
11	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	2 said	ccomp
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 none	amod
13	than	than	ADP	_	15 sister	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sister	nmod:poss
15	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 other	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dead	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 dead	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 dead	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 dead	advmod
20	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sister	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 transformed	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 transformed	cc
23	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 said	conj
24	by	by	ADP	_	27 ball	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ball	det
26	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ball	compound
27	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 transformed	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	maidens = maiden			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	could	the yellow water lily	none		tree rules
3	not is	past	maidens's sister		dead property	tree rules
4	transform	participle	maidens = maiden not said here		by the magic ball	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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