Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 23

Grace pulled one oar, and her father the other, and they made straight toward the wreck.

Who acts: Grace, men · What happens: pull, make · To what, where: one oar, 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 (Grace, men), 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	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 pulled	nsubj
2	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 oar	nummod
4	oar	oar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulled	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 other	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 other	cc
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 other	nsubj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 other	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pulled	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 made	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	nsubj
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pulled	conj
15	straight	straight	ADV	_	18 wreck	advmod
16	toward	toward	ADP	_	18 wreck	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wreck	det
18	wreck	wreck	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past	Grace	one oar					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oar=Theme
2	make	past	men = man	the wreck					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wreck=Product

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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