The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 119

As soon as she came to the river she lay down to take a drink of the water, but meanwhile the two of them had got down off the roof and thrust her, head first, into the river.

Who acts: girl, two · What happens: come, lie down, take, get down · To what, where: river, drink

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, two), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 came	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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 came	obl
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lay	nsubj
10	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	advcl
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 lay	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 take	mark
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 lay	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 drink	det
15	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 water	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 water	det
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drink	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 got	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 got	cc
21	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	23 two	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 two	det
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 got	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 two	nmod
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 got	aux
27	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 came	parataxis
28	down	down	ADP	_	27 got	compound:prt
29	off	off	ADP	_	31 roof	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 roof	det
31	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 got	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 thrust	cc
33	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 roof	conj
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 thrust	nmod:unmarked
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 head	punct
36	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 roof	conj
37	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	36 head	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 river	punct
39	into	into	ADP	_	41 river	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 river	det
41	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 got	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	girl		the river	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location
2	lie down	past	girl			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	take	to-infinitive	girl not said here	a drink of the water			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Theme
4	get down	past · perfect	the two of others		the river	off the roof and thrust girl and head	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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