The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 13
Now, in the middle of the garden there was a pond of water, clear as crystal, and the old woman said to the Queen:
Who acts: pond, old woman · What happens: be, say · To what, where: middle, Queen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pond, old woman), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 was | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 middle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 middle | det |
| 5 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garden | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 middle | nmod |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pond | det |
| 12 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pond | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 clear | punct |
| 16 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pond | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 crystal | case |
| 18 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 clear | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 woman | det |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 woman | amod |
| 23 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | nsubj |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Queen | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Queen | det |
| 27 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 said | obl |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a pond of water | the middle of the garden; there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman | the Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to queen=Recipient |
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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