The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 23
But what was their horror to see its usually tranquil waters seething and bubbling, and even as they looked down rushed a mighty stream, which entirely engulfed it, and Sylvain and Jocosa found themselves parted by a wide and swiftly-rushing river.
Who acts: tranquil waters, Sylvain, mighty stream · What happens: be, see, seethe, bubble, look down, rush · To what, where: horror, tranquil waters, mighty stream, stream, Sylvain
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tranquil waters, Sylvain, mighty stream), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 horror | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 horror | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 horror | cop |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horror | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 horror | acl |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 waters | nmod:poss |
| 9 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 10 tranquil | advmod |
| 10 | tranquil | tranquil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 waters | amod |
| 11 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 see | obj |
| 12 | seething | seethe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 waters | acl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bubbling | cc |
| 14 | bubbling | bubble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 seething | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 looked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 looked | cc |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 looked | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 looked | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 looked | nsubj |
| 20 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 horror | parataxis |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 rushed | advmod |
| 22 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 looked | xcomp |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 stream | det |
| 24 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stream | amod |
| 25 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rushed | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 engulfed | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 engulfed | nsubj |
| 28 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 29 engulfed | advmod |
| 29 | engulfed | engulf | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stream | acl:relcl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 engulfed | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 found | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 found | cc |
| 33 | Sylvain | Sylvain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 found | nsubj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 Jocosa | cc |
| 35 | Jocosa | Jocosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Sylvain | conj |
| 36 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 looked | conj |
| 37 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 found | obj |
| 38 | parted | part | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 found | xcomp |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 46 river | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 river | det |
| 41 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 river | amod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 rushing | cc |
| 43 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 45 rushing | advmod |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 swiftly | punct |
| 45 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 wide | conj |
| 46 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 parted | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 horror | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Sylvain's horror | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | horror's tranquil waters | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | seethe | gerund | horror's tranquil waters not said here | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location | |||||
| 4 | bubble | gerund | horror's tranquil waters not said here | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 5 | look down | past | Sylvain | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | rush | participle | Sylvain not said here | a mighty stream | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stream=Trajectory | |||
| 7 | engulf | past | a mighty stream | stream | entirely property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | |||
| 8 | find | past | Sylvain and Jocosa | Sylvain | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent themselves=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 9 | part | participle | Sylvain not said here | by a wide river | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 10 | rush | gerund | Sylvain not said here | swiftly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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