The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 29

Now the stream was all choked up, and overgrown with weeds and water-plants, so that its waters could not flow freely.

Who acts: waters · What happens: choke up, overgrow, not flow · To what, where: stream

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waters), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 choked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stream	det
3	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 choked	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 choked	aux:pass
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 choked	advmod
6	choked	choke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 choked	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 overgrown	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 overgrown	cc
10	overgrown	overgrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 choked	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 weeds	case
12	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 overgrown	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 plants	cc
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 plants	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 water	punct
16	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 weeds	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 flow	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	24 flow	advmod
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 flow	mark
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 waters	nmod:poss
21	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 flow	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 flow	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 flow	advmod
24	flow	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 overgrown	conj
25	freely	freely	ADV	_	24 flow	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 choked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	choke up	past · passive		the stream	now	all property	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
2	overgrow	participle				with weeds and water plants	tree rules
3	not flow	could	stream's waters			freely property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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