The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 33

But just as she got to the river she saw the two lovers in each other’s arms swimming through the water as easily as two fishes.

Who acts: daughter, arms · What happens: get, see, swim · To what, where: two lovers, water

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, arms), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 saw	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 got	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 saw	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obl
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lovers	det
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 lovers	nummod
13	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 saw	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 each	case
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 other	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 arms	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 other	case
18	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 saw	obj
19	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 arms	acl
20	through	through	ADP	_	22 water	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 water	det
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 swimming	obl
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 easily	advmod
24	easily	easily	ADV	_	19 swimming	advmod
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 fishes	case
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 fishes	nummod
27	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 easily	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	daughter			to the river result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to river=Result
2	see	past	daughter	the two lovers			tree rules
3	swim	gerund	each other's arms not said here		the water	easily property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through water=Trajectory

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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