The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 112
The green leaf floated away down the stream, and the butterfly with it, for he was fastened to the leaf and could not get loose from it.
What happens: float away, fasten, not get · To what, where: green leaf, stream, butterfly
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 leaf | det |
| 2 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 leaf | amod |
| 3 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 leaf | acl |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 floated | advmod |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 stream | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stream | det |
| 8 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 floated | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 butterfly | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 butterfly | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 butterfly | det |
| 12 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaf | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 butterfly | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fastened | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 fastened | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fastened | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fastened | aux:pass |
| 19 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 leaf | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 leaf | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 leaf | det |
| 22 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fastened | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 get | cc |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 get | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 get | advmod |
| 26 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 fastened | conj |
| 27 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 get | xcomp |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 loose | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaf | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float away | participle | the green leaf and the butterfly with stream not said here | the stream | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down stream=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | fasten | past · passive | butterfly | to the leaf | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to leaf=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | not get | could | loose property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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