The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 111

Very near the water there was a pretty green bank, and there the Princesses said they would sit down and while away an hour, for they thought that it would be pleasant to sit and look out over the water, they said.

Who acts: pretty green bank, Princesses, Heavens, it · What happens: be, say, sit down, while away, think, sit · To what, where: water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretty green bank, Princesses, Heavens, it), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	6 was	advmod
2	near	near	ADP	_	4 water	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	parataxis
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bank	det
8	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bank	amod
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bank	amod
10	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 said	expl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Princesses	det
15	Princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sit	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 sit	aux
19	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 sit	compound:prt
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 while	cc
22	while	while	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 sit	conj
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 while	advmod
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hour	det
25	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 away	obl:unmarked
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 thought	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 thought	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 thought	nsubj
29	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sit	conj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 pleasant	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 pleasant	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 pleasant	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 pleasant	cop
34	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 thought	ccomp
35	to	to	PART	_	36 sit	mark
36	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 pleasant	xcomp
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 look	cc
38	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 sit	conj
39	out	out	ADV	_	38 look	advmod
40	over	over	ADP	_	42 water	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 water	det
42	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 look	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 said	punct
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 said	nsubj
45	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sit	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a pretty green bank	the water; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near water=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the Princesses	there		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sit down	would	Heavens = heaven			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	while away	present	Heavens = heaven not said here		away property	tree rules
5	think speech: other	past	Heavens = heaven			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	would	it		pleasant property	tree rules
7	sit	to-infinitive				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	look out	infinitive		the water	out property	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
9	say speech: assert	past	Heavens = heaven			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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