English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 63
And the princess floated down the mill-stream, sometimes swimming and sometimes sinking, till she came near the mill.
Who acts: princess · What happens: float, swim, sink, come · To what, where: mill stream, mill
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 floated | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 floated | nsubj |
| 4 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 stream | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stream | det |
| 7 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stream | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 mill | punct |
| 9 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 floated | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 swimming | punct |
| 11 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 swimming | advmod |
| 12 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 floated | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sinking | cc |
| 14 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 sinking | advmod |
| 15 | sinking | sink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 swimming | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 17 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 came | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 floated | parataxis |
| 20 | near | near | ADP | _ | 22 mill | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mill | det |
| 22 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 floated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | participle | the princess | the mill stream | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down stream=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | swim | gerund | the princess not said here | sometimes property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sink | gerund | the princess not said here | sometimes property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | come | past | princess | the mill | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near mill=Location |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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