The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 42

‘The current soon carried me out of hearing of her cries, and I dreamed to the song of the ripples and the whisper of the trees, until the boat suddenly stopped, and I found it was stuck fast beside a fresh green meadow, and that the sun was rising.

Who acts: current, I, boat, sun, cries, ripples · What happens: carry, dream, stop, find, be, rise · To what, where: me, hearing, fresh green meadow, trees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (current, I, boat, sun), 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	_	5 carried	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 current	det
3	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	nsubj
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 current	advmod
5	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 carried	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	9 hearing	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 hearing	case
9	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 cries	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 cries	nmod:poss
12	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hearing	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dreamed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dreamed	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 dreamed	nsubj
16	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 carried	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 song	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 song	det
19	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dreamed	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 ripples	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ripples	det
22	ripples	ripple	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 song	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 whisper	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 whisper	det
25	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ripples	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 trees	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 trees	det
28	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 whisper	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stopped	punct
30	until	until	SCONJ	_	34 stopped	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 boat	det
32	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stopped	nsubj
33	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	34 stopped	advmod
34	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 dreamed	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 found	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 found	cc
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 found	nsubj
38	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 carried	conj
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 stuck	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 stuck	cop
41	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 found	ccomp
42	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 stuck	advmod
43	beside	beside	ADP	_	47 meadow	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 meadow	det
45	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 meadow	amod
46	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 meadow	amod
47	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 stuck	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 rising	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 rising	cc
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	54 rising	mark
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 sun	det
52	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 rising	nsubj
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 rising	aux
54	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 carried	advcl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past	the current	me	hearing of current's cries		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme out hearing=Initial_Location
2	dream	past	I			to the song of the ripples and the whisper of the trees	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	stop	past	the boat			suddenly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	find	past	I				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	boat		a fresh green meadow	fast, stuck property	tree rules
6	rise	past · progressive	the sun				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	hear		current's cries				nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=agent
8	cry		current				nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
9	sing		the ripples and the whisper of the trees				nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent
10	whisper			the trees			nom whisper «communication 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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