--- title: Then he noticed a yellow water-lily floating on the surface of the w… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then he noticed a yellow water-lily floating on the surface of the water, half hidden by its broad leaves; but flowers do not sing, and in great surprise he waited, hoping to hear more. Who acts: thought, yellow water lily, flowers. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/71/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/) / 71 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 71 Then he noticed a yellow water-lily floating on the surface of the water, half hidden by its broad leaves; but flowers do not sing, and in great surprise he waited, hoping to hear more. **Who acts:** thought, yellow water lily, flowers · **What happens:** notice, float, hide, not sing, wait, hope · **To what, where:** yellow water lily, surface, half, great surprise, more This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, yellow water lily, flowers), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:26:71 # text = Then he noticed a yellow water-lily floating on the surface of the water, half hidden by its broad leaves; but flowers do not sing, and in great surprise he waited, hoping to hear more. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 6 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 lily lily NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 9 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 15 conj _ _ 18 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 broad broad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 26 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 hoping hope VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 advcl _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **notice** | past | thought | a yellow water lily | | | then | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lily=Stimulus | | 2 | **float** | gerund | a yellow water lily *not said here* | | | the surface of the water and half | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on surface=Trajectory | | 3 | **hide** | participle | | half *not said here* | | | | by half's broad leaves | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by leaf=Location | | 4 | **not** **sing** *speech: express* | present · do-support | flowers | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **wait** | past | thought | | | great surprise | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in surprise=Location | | 6 | **hope** | gerund | thought *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **hear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | thought *not said here* | more | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/72/) - ↑ back to [The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/)