The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 67
The water flowed noiselessly over the pebbles, the wind bowed the tops of the trees, flies and chafers darted about, without breaking the silence.
Who acts: water, wind, tops · What happens: flow, bow, dart about, break · To what, where: pebbles, silence
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, wind, tops), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flowed | nsubj |
| 3 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | noiselessly | noiselessly | ADV | _ | 3 flowed | advmod |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 pebbles | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pebbles | det |
| 7 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flowed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bowed | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wind | det |
| 10 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bowed | nsubj |
| 11 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flowed | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tops | det |
| 13 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 darted | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 trees | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 trees | det |
| 16 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tops | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 flies | punct |
| 18 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 trees | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 chafers | cc |
| 20 | chafers | chafer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 trees | conj |
| 21 | darted | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 bowed | ccomp |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 21 darted | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 breaking | punct |
| 24 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 25 breaking | mark |
| 25 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 darted | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 silence | det |
| 27 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 breaking | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | past | the water | the pebbles | noiselessly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over pebble=Location | |||
| 2 | bow | past | the wind | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | dart about | past | the tops of the trees and flies and chafers | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | break | gerund | the tops of the trees and flies and chafers not said here | the silence | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer silence=Patient |
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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