The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 90
We will put her at once on a broad water-lily leaf in the stream.
Who acts: We · What happens: put · To what, where: girl, broad lily leaf
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | aux |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 once | case |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 put | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 leaf | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 leaf | det |
| 9 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 leaf | amod |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lily | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 water | punct |
| 12 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leaf | compound |
| 13 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 stream | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stream | det |
| 16 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | future | We | girl | a broad lily leaf | in the stream | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on leaf=Destination |
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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