The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 24

At first Tiidu did not much like this scheme, for the sea ran high, but he was a good swimmer, and the sailor assured him that there was no danger.

Who acts: Tiidu, sea, sailor, danger · What happens: do, run, be, assure · To what, where: good swimmer, Tiidu

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu, sea, sailor, danger), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 did	obl
3	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 scheme	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 scheme	det
9	scheme	scheme	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ran	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 ran	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ran	nsubj
14	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
15	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ran	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 swimmer	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 swimmer	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 swimmer	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 swimmer	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 swimmer	det
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 swimmer	amod
22	swimmer	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ran	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 assured	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 assured	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sailor	det
26	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 assured	nsubj
27	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 assured	iobj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 was	mark
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	31 was	expl
31	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 assured	advcl
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 danger	det
33	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 was	nsubj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	Tiidu				like this scheme	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run	past	the sea				high property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	Tiidu	a good swimmer				tree rules
4	assure	past	the sailor		Tiidu			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	be	past	no danger			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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