The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 1
When they arrived at the palace she did not lose a moment in planting the branch of the tree of beauty and watering it with the water of life.
Who acts: they, she · What happens: arrive, not lose, plant, water · To what, where: palace, branch
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, she), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lose | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lose | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 lose | advmod |
| 10 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 arrived | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 moment | det |
| 12 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lose | obj |
| 13 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 14 planting | mark |
| 14 | planting | plant | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 lose | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 branch | det |
| 16 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 planting | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 branch | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 beauty | case |
| 21 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tree | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 watering | cc |
| 23 | watering | water | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 planting | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 watering | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 water | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 water | det |
| 27 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 watering | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 life | case |
| 29 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 water | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | they | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not lose | past · do-support | she | moment | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | plant | gerund | she not said here | the branch of the tree of beauty | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Patient | ||||
| 4 | water | gerund | she not said here | branch | with the water of life | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with water=Theme |
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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