The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 66

In the middle of the garden they found a large lake, and when they reached the edge of it the Lake began to speak, and said to them, ‘What men are you, and what brings you here?

Who acts: men, Lake · What happens: find, reach, begin, speak, say, be · To what, where: large lake, middle, edge, men, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, 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 (men, Lake), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 garden	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 garden	det
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lake	det
10	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lake	amod
11	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 reached	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 reached	cc
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 reached	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 reached	nsubj
16	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 edge	det
18	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reached	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 began	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Lake	det
22	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 began	nsubj
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 edge	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 speak	mark
25	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 began	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	parataxis
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 said	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 What	punct
32	‘	'	PUNCT	_	33 What	punct
33	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 said	ccomp
34	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 you	nsubj
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 you	cop
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 What	acl:relcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 brings	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 brings	cc
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	40 brings	nsubj
40	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 found	conj
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 brings	obj
42	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 brings	advmod
43	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	men = man	a large lake		the middle of the garden		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Topic
2	reach	past	men = man	the edge				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent edge=Theme
3	begin	past	the Lake	the edge not said here			of garden	tree rules
4	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	the Lake not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past			men = man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
6	is a	present	men	you				tree rules
7	bring	present			you	here		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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