The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 45

‘So I took the cake as well as the holy water, and was flying back with them over the sea, when there fell a great rain, and the sea was swollen, and swept away my millet cake.

Who acts: I, sea · What happens: take, fly back, fall, be, sweep away · To what, where: cake, sea, great rain, millet cake

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sea), 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 took	punct
2	So	so	ADV	_	4 took	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cake	det
6	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	4 took	advmod
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 as	fixed
9	as	as	ADP	_	12 water	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
11	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 water	amod
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flying	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 flying	cc
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 flying	aux
16	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 took	advcl
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 flying	advmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 flying	obl
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 sea	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sea	det
22	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flying	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fell	punct
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 fell	advmod
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 fell	expl
26	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 rain	det
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 rain	amod
29	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fell	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 swollen	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 swollen	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sea	det
33	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 swollen	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 swollen	cop
35	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fell	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 swept	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 swept	cc
38	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
39	away	away	ADV	_	38 swept	advmod
40	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 cake	nmod:poss
41	millet	millet	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 cake	compound
42	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 swept	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	I	the cake		as the holy water	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cake=Theme as water=Attribute
2	fly back	past · progressive	I not said here		the sea	with hands = hand	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Location
3	fall	past	I not said here	a great rain	there		vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient rain=Result
4	is	past	the sea			swollen property	tree rules
5	sweep away	past	I not said here	my millet cake		away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cake=Trajectory

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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