The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 104
They assembled in the water round the green stalk which supported the leaf on which she was sitting, and nibbled the stem in two.
Who acts: fishes, green stalk, leaf · What happens: assemble, support, sit, nibble · To what, where: water, leaf, stem, two
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fishes, green stalk, leaf), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 assembled | nsubj |
| 2 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 water | det |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 assembled | obl |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 9 stalk | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stalk | det |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stalk | amod |
| 9 | stalk | stalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 assembled | obl |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 supported | nsubj |
| 11 | supported | support | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stalk | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 leaf | det |
| 13 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 supported | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 sitting | obl |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sitting | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sitting | aux |
| 18 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 leaf | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 nibbled | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 nibbled | cc |
| 21 | nibbled | nibble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 assembled | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 stem | det |
| 23 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 nibbled | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 two | case |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 nibbled | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 assembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past | fishes = fish | the water | round the green stalk | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | support | past | the green stalk | the leaf | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leaf=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sit | past · progressive | leaf | the leaf | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location | ||||
| 4 | nibble | past | fishes = fish not said here | the stem | two | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stem=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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