The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 93
Outside in the brook grew many water-lilies, with broad green leaves, which looked as if they were swimming about on the water.
Who acts: brook, broad green leaves, lilies · What happens: grow, look, swim · To what, where: many water lilies, water
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 (brook, broad green leaves, lilies), 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 | Outside | outside | ADV | _ | 5 grew | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 brook | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brook | det |
| 4 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lilies | amod |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lilies | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 water | punct |
| 9 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grew | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 leaves | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 leaves | case |
| 12 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 leaves | amod |
| 13 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 leaves | amod |
| 14 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lilies | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 leaves | acl:relcl |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 swimming | mark |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 swimming | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 swimming | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 swimming | aux |
| 22 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 looked | advcl |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 swimming | advmod |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 water | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 water | det |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 swimming | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the brook | many water lilies | outside property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lily=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | past | broad green leaves | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | swim | past · progressive | lilies = lily | the water | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory |
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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