The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 79
A single drop of its water falling on the sand around will trace the name of my rival in her heart.
Who acts: single drop · What happens: fall, trace, name · To what, where: sand, name, heart, rival
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (single drop), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 drop | det |
| 2 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 drop | amod |
| 3 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trace | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 water | nmod:poss |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drop | nmod |
| 7 | falling | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 drop | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 sand | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sand | det |
| 10 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 falling | obl |
| 11 | around | around | ADP | _ | 7 falling | obl |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 trace | aux |
| 13 | trace | trace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 name | det |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trace | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 rival | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 rival | nmod:poss |
| 18 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 name | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 heart | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 heart | nmod:poss |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trace | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 trace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | gerund | a single drop of drop's water not said here | the sand | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on sand=Location | ||||
| 2 | trace | future | a single drop of drop's water | the name of my rival | Argentine's heart | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Theme in heart=Destination | |||
| 3 | name | my rival | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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