The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 66

And one night, when the ship was at anchor and the skipper asleep in his bunk, Nigel launched the ship's boat and steered alone over the dark sea towards the light.

Who acts: ship, Nigel · What happens: be, launch, steer · To what, where: anchor, boat, dark sea

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ship, Nigel), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 night	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 night	nummod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 launched	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 anchor	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 anchor	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ship	det
7	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 anchor	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 anchor	cop
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 anchor	case
10	anchor	anchor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 night	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 skipper	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 skipper	det
13	skipper	skipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 anchor	conj
14	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 anchor	amod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 bunk	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 bunk	nmod:poss
17	bunk	bunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 asleep	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
19	Nigel	Nigel	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 launched	nsubj
20	launched	launch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ship	det
22	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 boat	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 ship	case
24	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 launched	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 steered	cc
26	steered	steer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 launched	conj
27	alone	alone	ADV	_	26 steered	advmod
28	over	over	ADP	_	31 sea	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sea	det
30	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 sea	amod
31	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 steered	obl
32	towards	towards	ADP	_	34 light	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 light	det
34	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 steered	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 launched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the ship		anchor and the skipper			tree rules
2	launch	past	Nigel	the ship's boat		night		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme
3	steer	past	Nigel not said here		the dark sea		towards the light; alone property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent over sea=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: «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (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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