The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 13
When they were quite out of sight, the brook and the fish returned to their usual shapes and proceeded on their journey.
Who acts: brook · What happens: be, return, proceed, journey · To what, where: sight, journey
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brook), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 sight | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sight | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sight | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 sight | advmod |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 returned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sight | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 brook | det |
| 10 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 returned | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fish | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fish | det |
| 13 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brook | conj |
| 14 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 shapes | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 shapes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 shapes | amod |
| 18 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 returned | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 proceeded | cc |
| 20 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 returned | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 journey | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 journey | nmod:poss |
| 23 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 proceeded | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | brook | sight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | past | the brook and the fish | to brook's usual shapes result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to shape=Result | ||||
| 3 | proceed | past | the brook and the fish not said here | brook's journey | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | journey | brook | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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