The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 69
Everything round them was dry and firm, and there was no water anywhere.
Who acts: Everything, water · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, water), 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 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 dry | nsubj |
| 2 | round | round | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Everything | nmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dry | cop |
| 5 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 firm | cc |
| 7 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dry | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 was | cc |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dry | parataxis |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 water | det |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 14 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 was | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Everything | dry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Everything not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | past | no water | there | anywhere property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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