The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 98
A little stream of clear water ran through the room, and live fish were kept at one end of it.
Who acts: little stream · What happens: run, keep · To what, where: room, live fish, one end
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little stream), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 stream | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stream | amod |
| 3 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 5 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 water | amod |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stream | nmod |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 room | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 room | det |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 kept | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 kept | cc |
| 13 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fish | amod |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 kept | aux:pass |
| 16 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ran | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 end | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 end | nummod |
| 19 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kept | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 end | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | a little stream of clear water | the room | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through room=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | keep | past · passive | live fish | at one end of stream | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at end=Location |
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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