The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 99
Plunge boldly into the water, swim as close as thou canst to the water-lily’s roots, and loosen them from the mud and reeds.
Who acts: you · What happens: plunge, swim, loosen, reed · To what, where: water, roots, mud
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 | Plunge | plunge | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Plunge | advmod |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 water | det |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Plunge | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 swim | punct |
| 7 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Plunge | conj |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 close | advmod |
| 9 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 swim | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 canst | mark |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 canst | nsubj |
| 12 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 9 close | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 roots | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lily | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lily | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 water | punct |
| 17 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 roots | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 lily | case |
| 19 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 canst | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 loosen | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 loosen | cc |
| 22 | loosen | loosen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Plunge | parataxis |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 loosen | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 mud | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 mud | det |
| 26 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 loosen | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 reeds | cc |
| 28 | reeds | reed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 loosen | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Plunge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plunge | imperative | you not said here | the water | boldly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | swim | present | you not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | loosen | infinitive | roots = root | the mud | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | reed | present | tree rules |
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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