Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 3
A ship had been driven on a low rock off the shores of the Farne Islands.
What happens: drive · To what, where: ship, low rock
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ship | det |
| 2 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 driven | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 driven | aux:pass |
| 5 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 rock | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rock | det |
| 8 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rock | amod |
| 9 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 driven | obl |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 shores | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shores | det |
| 12 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 driven | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Islands | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Islands | det |
| 15 | Farne | Farne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Islands | compound |
| 16 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 shores | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 driven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past · perfect · passive | a ship | a low rock | off the shores of the Farne Islands | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme on rock=Destination off shore=Initial_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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