The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 85
There flowed a great wide stream, with slippery and marshy banks; here the toad lived with her son.
Who acts: toad · What happens: flow, live · To what, where: great wide stream
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 (toad), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 flowed | expl |
| 2 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stream | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stream | amod |
| 5 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stream | amod |
| 6 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flowed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 banks | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 banks | case |
| 9 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 banks | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 marshy | cc |
| 11 | marshy | marshy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 slippery | conj |
| 12 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 flowed | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 lived | punct |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 lived | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 toad | det |
| 16 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lived | nsubj |
| 17 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flowed | advcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 son | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 son | nmod:poss |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lived | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | past | a great wide stream | there | with slippery banks | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stream=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | past | the toad | here | with THUMBELINA's son | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with son=Location |
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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