Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 15

There was but little wind that day, and the sea was as smooth as glass.

Who acts: little wind, sea · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Inchcape Rock.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little wind, sea), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 wind	cc
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wind	amod
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 smooth	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 smooth	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 smooth	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 smooth	cop
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 smooth	advmod
14	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 was	advcl
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 glass	case
16	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 smooth	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	little wind			there	day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the sea					as glass; smooth 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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