Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 11
When day-light came, she could see the wreck, a mile away, with the angry waters all around it.
Who acts: day light, light · What happens: come, see · To what, where: wreck
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Grace Darling.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day light, light), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 light | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wreck | det |
| 11 | wreck | wreck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mile | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 mile | det |
| 14 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wreck | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 see | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 waters | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 waters | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 waters | det |
| 19 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 waters | amod |
| 20 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 see | obl |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 it | advmod |
| 22 | around | around | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 waters | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | day light | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | could | light | the wreck and a mile | with the angry waters around mile; away property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wreck=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: «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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