The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 99
‘We were driving through the forest, and we saw a pike up in the top of a tree----’
Who acts: We · What happens: drive, see up · To what, where: forest, pike, top
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 driving | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 driving | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 driving | aux |
| 4 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 driving | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 driving | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pike | det |
| 13 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 saw | compound:prt |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 top | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 top | det |
| 17 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 top | nmod |
| 21 | ---- | ---- | PUNCT | _ | 4 driving | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 driving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past · progressive | We | the forest | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through forest=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | see up | past | we | a pike | the top of a tree | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pike=Stimulus |
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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