The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 90

When they arrived there they went at once to the Lake, and this time the lions did not stir, nor did the springs flow, and neither did the Lake speak.

Who acts: country, lions, springs · What happens: arrive, go, not stir, do, flow · To what, where: Lake, Lake speak

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 (country, lions, springs), 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	23 did	advcl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 arrived	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 arrived	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 went	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 Lake	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Lake	det
11	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stir	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stir	cc
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stir	obl:unmarked
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lions	det
17	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 stir	nsubj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stir	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 stir	advmod
20	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 arrived	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 did	punct
22	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	23 did	cc
23	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 springs	det
25	springs	spring	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 flow	nsubj
26	flow	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 did	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 did	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 did	cc
29	neither	neither	ADV	_	30 did	advmod
30	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 did	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 speak	det
32	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 speak	compound
33	speak	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 did	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	country		there			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	country		the Lake			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location
3	not stir	past · do-support	the lions			time		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	do	past						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	flow	present	the springs					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	do	past		the Lake speak			neither property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speak=Eventuality

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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