Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 10
The sea was smooth, the winds were fair, and no one thought of danger.
Who acts: sea, winds · What happens: be, think · To what, where: danger
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The White Ship.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea, winds), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sea | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smooth | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 smooth | cop |
| 4 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fair | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 winds | det |
| 7 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fair | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fair | cop |
| 9 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 smooth | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thought | cc |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 thought | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | compound |
| 14 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smooth | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 danger | case |
| 16 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 smooth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sea | smooth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the winds | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think | danger | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=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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