The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 73
By-and-bye they came to a stream, on the bank of which was a fish, flapping feebly about in its efforts to reach the water.
Who acts: bread · What happens: come, be, flap, reach · To what, where: bank, fish, efforts, water
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bread), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 - | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 came | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 7 came | discourse |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 stream | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 stream | det |
| 10 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bank | punct |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 bank | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bank | det |
| 14 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 fish | obl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fish | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fish | det |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bank | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 flapping | punct |
| 21 | flapping | flap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 came | advcl |
| 22 | feebly | feebly | ADV | _ | 23 about | advmod |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 21 flapping | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 efforts | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 efforts | nmod:poss |
| 26 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 flapping | obl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 reach | mark |
| 28 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 flapping | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 water | det |
| 30 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 reach | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | bread | the bank | to a stream | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stream=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | a fish | of the bank | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | flap | gerund | bread not said here | fish's efforts | about property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in effort=Location | |||
| 4 | reach | to-infinitive | bread not said here | the water | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent 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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