Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 31
Strong hands grasped the oars, and by and by all were safe in the lighthouse.
Who acts: Strong hands, all · What happens: grasp, be · To what, where: oars, lighthouse
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 (Strong hands, all), 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 | Strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hands | amod |
| 2 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grasped | nsubj |
| 3 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 oars | det |
| 5 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grasped | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 safe | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 safe | cc |
| 8 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 13 safe | mark |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 safe | cc |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 all | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 safe | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 safe | cop |
| 13 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grasped | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 lighthouse | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lighthouse | det |
| 16 | lighthouse | lighthouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 safe | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grasp | past | Strong hands | the oars | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oar=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | all | the lighthouse | safe property | tree rules |
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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