The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 14
Before long he came to a well filled to the brim with water clear as crystal, and on the bosom of which a golden jug was floating.
Who acts: KING, golden jug · What happens: come, fill, float · To what, where: bosom, well
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (KING, golden jug), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 2 long | case |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 well | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 well | det |
| 7 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 well | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 brim | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brim | det |
| 11 | brim | brim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 filled | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brim | nmod |
| 14 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 brim | amod |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 crystal | case |
| 16 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 clear | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bosom | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bosom | cc |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 bosom | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bosom | det |
| 21 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 floating | obl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 jug | det |
| 25 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 jug | amod |
| 26 | jug | jug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 floating | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 floating | aux |
| 28 | floating | float | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 bosom | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | KING | the bosom | to a well | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to well=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | fill | participle | a well not said here | to the brim with water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | float | past · progressive | a golden jug | of the bosom | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of which=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 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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