The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 50
At a stone’s throw from where they stood ran a rushing stream, with clear deep pools.
Who acts: brothers, stone · What happens: stand, run, rush, throw · To what, where: rushing stream, throw
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, stone), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 throw | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 stone | det |
| 3 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 throw | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 stone | case |
| 5 | throw | throw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ran | obl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 where | case |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 stood | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stood | nsubj |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ran | advcl |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 stream | det |
| 12 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 stream | amod |
| 13 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ran | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pools | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 pools | case |
| 16 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pools | amod |
| 17 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pools | amod |
| 18 | pools | pool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ran | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | brothers = brother | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | run | past | a rushing stream | a stone's throw | with clear deep pools | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent stream=Theme at throw=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | rush | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | throw | a stone | nom throw «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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