The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 95

Instead of water, there flowed milk, and the bottom was of precious stones and pearls, instead of sand and pebbles.

Who acts: bottom · What happens: flow, be · To what, where: milk

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (bottom), 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	Instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	3 water	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Instead	fixed
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flowed	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 water	punct
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 flowed	expl
6	flowed	flow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flowed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stones	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stones	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bottom	det
11	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stones	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stones	cop
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 stones	case
14	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stones	amod
15	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flowed	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pearls	cc
17	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stones	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sand	punct
19	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	21 sand	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	19 instead	fixed
21	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flowed	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pebbles	cc
23	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sand	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flow	participle		milk		there		instead water	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location milk=Theme
2	is	past	the bottom					of precious stones and pearls	tree rules

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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