Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Humphrey Gilbert., sentence 12
In the morning the little ships were almost lost among the floating mountains of ice.
What happens: lose, float · To what, where: little ships
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Humphrey Gilbert.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lost | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ships | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ships | amod |
| 6 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lost | aux:pass |
| 8 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 9 lost | advmod |
| 9 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 13 mountains | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mountains | det |
| 12 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 mountains | amod |
| 13 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lost | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 ice | case |
| 15 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mountains | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · passive | the little ships | morning | among the floating mountains of ice; almost property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | float | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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