Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 4

It had been broken in two by the waves, and half of it had been washed away.

Who acts: waves · What happens: break, wash away · To what, where: ship, two, half

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 (waves), 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	4 broken	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 broken	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 broken	aux:pass
4	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 two	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 broken	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 waves	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 waves	det
9	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 broken	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 washed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 washed	cc
12	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	17 washed	nsubj:pass
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 half	nmod
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 washed	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 washed	aux:pass
17	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 broken	conj
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 washed	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 broken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past · perfect · passive	the waves	ship		two			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Patient
2	wash away	past · perfect · passive		half of ship				away property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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