The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 81
A little way along they noticed another man in the middle of a stream, who was shooting into the water.
Who acts: miles, stream · What happens: notice, shoot · To what, where: man, middle, water
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miles, stream), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 way | amod |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 6 noticed | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 noticed | nsubj |
| 6 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 way | acl:relcl |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 noticed | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 middle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 middle | det |
| 11 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 man | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 stream | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 stream | det |
| 14 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 middle | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shooting | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 shooting | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 shooting | aux |
| 18 | shooting | shoot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 stream | acl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 water | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 water | det |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shooting | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | miles = mile | another man | the middle of a stream | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | shoot | past · progressive | a stream | the water | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent into water=Destination |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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