The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 25

As soon as he was in the water, his friend hastened to rouse his mates, declaring that he was sure that there was a man in the sea, following the ship.

Who acts: sailor, friend, man · What happens: be, hasten, rouse, declare, follow · To what, where: mates, ship · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sailor, friend, man), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 hastened	advmod
3	as	as	ADP	_	8 water	case
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 water	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 water	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soon	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hastened	punct
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 friend	nmod:poss
11	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hastened	nsubj
12	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 rouse	mark
14	rouse	rouse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hastened	xcomp
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mates	nmod:poss
16	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 rouse	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 declaring	punct
18	declaring	declare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 rouse	advcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 sure	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sure	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sure	cop
22	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 declaring	ccomp
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 was	mark
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 was	expl
25	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sure	ccomp
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 was	nsubj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 sea	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sea	det
30	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 man	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 following	punct
32	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 declaring	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ship	det
34	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 following	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 hastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	sailor			as the water	tree rules
2	hasten	past	sailor's friend			soon property	tree rules
3	rouse	to-infinitive	sailor's friend not said here	sailor's mates			vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Patient
4	declare speech: other	gerund	sailor's friend not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	sailor			sure property	tree rules
6	be	past	a man in the sea		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	follow	gerund	sailor's friend not said here	the ship			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=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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