The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 45
So they went on their way together, and came at last to a wood, where, being tired with walking, they paused to rest under the shade of a tree, where a spring of water sported with the tender grass, refreshing it with its crystal spray.
Who acts: inhabitants · What happens: go, come, be, pause, rest, sport · To what, where: way, last, shade, tree
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inhabitants), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 way | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 came | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 wood | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 wood | det |
| 15 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tired | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 tired | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tired | punct |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 tired | cop |
| 20 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wood | amod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 walking | case |
| 22 | walking | walking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tired | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 paused | punct |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 paused | nsubj |
| 25 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 rest | mark |
| 27 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 paused | xcomp |
| 28 | under | under | ADP | _ | 30 shade | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 shade | det |
| 30 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rest | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 tree | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 tree | det |
| 33 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 shade | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 sported | punct |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 40 sported | advmod |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 spring | det |
| 37 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sported | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 water | case |
| 39 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 spring | nmod |
| 40 | sported | sport | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 tree | conj |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 grass | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 grass | det |
| 43 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 grass | compound |
| 44 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sported | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 refreshing | punct |
| 46 | refreshing | refresh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 paused | advcl |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 refreshing | obj |
| 48 | with | with | ADP | _ | 51 spray | case |
| 49 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 spray | nmod:poss |
| 50 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 spray | amod |
| 51 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 refreshing | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | inhabitants = inhabitant | inhabitants's way | together property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | inhabitants = inhabitant not said here | last | to a wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | is | gerund | with walking; tired property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pause | past | inhabitants = inhabitant | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | rest | to-infinitive | inhabitants = inhabitant not said here | the shade of a tree | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under shade=Location | ||||
| 6 | sport | participle | inhabitants = inhabitant not said here | spring | with the tender grass | tree rules | |||
| 7 | refresh | gerund | inhabitants = inhabitant not said here | way | with way's crystal spray | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer | |||
| 8 | shade | a tree | nom shade «state transitive»: of=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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