English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 66
There's something white--a merry maid or a milk-white swan--coming down the stream.”
Who acts: something · What happens: be, come down · To what, where: stream
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 (something), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 's | expl |
| 2 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 's | nsubj |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 something | amod |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 maid | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 maid | det |
| 7 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 maid | amod |
| 8 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 something | appos |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 swan | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 swan | det |
| 11 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 white | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 milk | punct |
| 13 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 swan | amod |
| 14 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 maid | conj |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 coming | punct |
| 16 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 's | advcl |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 stream | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stream | det |
| 19 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 coming | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 's | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 's | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | something | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come down | gerund | something not said here | the stream | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stream=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: «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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