English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil, sentence 21
“Water yon flower,” cried the boy in despair, pointing to a geranium which stood in a pot on the floor.
Who acts: yon flower, geranium · What happens: cry, point, stand · To what, where: boy, despair, geranium, pot
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Master and His Pupil. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yon flower, geranium), 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 | _ | 4 flower | punct |
| 2 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 yon | compound |
| 3 | yon | yon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flower | compound |
| 4 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 flower | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 flower | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 despair | case |
| 11 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pointing | punct |
| 13 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 cried | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 geranium | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 geranium | det |
| 16 | geranium | geranium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pointing | obl |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 stood | nsubj |
| 18 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 geranium | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 pot | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 pot | det |
| 21 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stood | obl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 floor | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 floor | det |
| 24 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stood | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | yon flower | the boy | despair | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Topic | |||
| 2 | point | gerund | yon flower not said here | a geranium | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to geranium=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | a geranium | a pot | on the floor | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pot=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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