The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 85
But every May they returned to the Milk Lake, they and their children, and bathed in its waters.
Who acts: May · What happens: return, bath · To what, where: waters
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (May), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 returned | cc |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 May | det |
| 3 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Lake | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Lake | det |
| 8 | Milk | Milk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Lake | compound |
| 9 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 they | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 Lake | appos |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 children | cc |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 children | nmod:poss |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 they | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bathed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bathed | cc |
| 17 | bathed | bath | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 returned | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 waters | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 waters | nmod:poss |
| 20 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bathed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | every May | to the Milk Lake result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to lake=Result | ||||
| 2 | bath | participle | every May not said here | Lake's waters | 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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