The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 15
‘Nothing,’ said they; ‘the plain was quite empty, save for a brook and a fish swimming in it.’
Who acts: brook, plain, fish · What happens: say, be, save, swim · Speech: someone speaks here
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, plain, fish), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nothing | punct |
| 2 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nothing | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nothing | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 empty | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 empty | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 plain | det |
| 10 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 empty | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 empty | cop |
| 12 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 13 empty | advmod |
| 13 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 save | punct |
| 15 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 empty | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 brook | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 brook | det |
| 18 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 save | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fish | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fish | det |
| 21 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brook | conj |
| 22 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 fish | acl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 swimming | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | brook | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the plain | empty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | save | infinitive | the plain not said here | for a brook and a fish | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for brook=Source | ||||
| 4 | swim | gerund | a fish not said here | in fish | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=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 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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