The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 121
He ran to the brook, which flowed in a clear stream down from the mountain. and saw himself reflected as in a mirror.
Who acts: man, brook · What happens: run, flow, see, reflect · To what, where: clear stream, man
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, brook), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 brook | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brook | det |
| 5 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flowed | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 flowed | nsubj |
| 8 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brook | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 stream | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 stream | det |
| 11 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stream | amod |
| 12 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flowed | obl |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 flowed | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 mountain | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mountain | det |
| 16 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 down | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 saw | obj |
| 21 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 saw | xcomp |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 mirror | case |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 mirror | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 mirror | det |
| 25 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reflected | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | man | to the brook result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to brook=Result | ||||
| 2 | flow | past | the brook | a clear stream | down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stream=Location | |||
| 3 | see | past | man not said here | man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | reflect | participle | man not said here | as a mirror | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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 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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