Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 6

But the waves were dashing over it, and in a little while it too would be carried to the bottom.

Who acts: waves · What happens: dash, carry · To what, where: half, little

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 dashing	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 waves	det
3	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dashing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dashing	aux
5	dashing	dash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dashing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 carried	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 carried	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 little	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 little	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 carried	obl
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 it	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 little	advcl
15	too	too	ADV	_	12 little	advmod
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 carried	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 carried	aux:pass
18	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 dashing	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 bottom	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bottom	det
21	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 carried	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dashing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dash	past · progressive	the waves			half			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory
2	carry	would · passive	the waves not said here			a little		to the bottom	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to bottom=Destination

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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