Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 29
It was all that the girl could do to keep the frail boat from being drifted away, or broken upon the sharp edges of the rock.
Who acts: It · What happens: be, keep, drift away, break · To what, where: frail boat, sharp edges
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 (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | cop |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 do | det:predet |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 keep | mark |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 do | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boat | det |
| 12 | frail | frail | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 boat | amod |
| 13 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obj |
| 14 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 16 drifted | mark |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 drifted | aux:pass |
| 16 | drifted | drift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 keep | advcl |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 drifted | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 broken | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 broken | cc |
| 20 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 drifted | conj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 edges | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 edges | det |
| 23 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 edges | amod |
| 24 | edges | edge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 broken | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 rock | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 rock | det |
| 27 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 edges | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | could · past | It | do property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | the frail boat | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | |||||
| 3 | drift away | gerund · passive | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V» | |||||
| 4 | break | participle | the sharp edges of the rock | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon edge=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: «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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