The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 84

It is now quite a year since the maiden was transformed into a water-lily, and, though she sings so sadly that anyone going over the bridge must hear her, yet no one comes to her aid.

Who acts: thing, thrush, anyone, one · What happens: be, transform, sing, go, hear, come · To what, where: year, maiden, water lily, bridge, thrush, aid

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 (thing, thrush, anyone, one), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 year	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 year	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 year	advmod
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 year	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	since	since	SCONJ	_	11 transformed	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 maiden	det
9	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 transformed	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 transformed	aux:pass
11	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 year	advcl
12	into	into	ADP	_	16 lily	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 lily	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lily	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 water	punct
16	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 transformed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sings	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sings	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sings	punct
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 sings	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sings	nsubj
22	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 year	parataxis
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 sadly	advmod
24	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	22 sings	advmod
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 hear	mark
26	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	32 hear	nsubj
27	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 anyone	acl
28	over	over	ADP	_	30 bridge	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bridge	det
30	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 going	obl
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 hear	aux
32	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sadly	advcl
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 hear	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 comes	punct
35	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	38 comes	cc
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 one	det
37	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 comes	nsubj
38	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sings	conj
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 aid	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 aid	nmod:poss
41	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 comes	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 year	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	thing	a year		now		tree rules
2	transform	past · passive		the maiden			into a water lily result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into lily=Result
3	sing speech: express	present	thrush				sadly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
4	go	gerund			the bridge			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over bridge=Initial_Location
5	hear	must	anyone	thrush				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
6	come	present	no one		thrush's aid			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to aid=Initial_Location

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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