The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 32
I hoped that by swimming after the ship I might at last reach Kungla, as I had no money to pay my passage.”
Who acts: I, money, my · What happens: hope, swim, have, pay, pass · To what, where: last reach, money, passage
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 (I, money, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 hoped | nsubj |
| 2 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 swimming | mark |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 swimming | mark |
| 5 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 hoped | advcl |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 ship | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ship | det |
| 8 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swimming | obl |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 might | nsubj |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 ship | acl:relcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 reach | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 reach | amod |
| 13 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swimming | obl |
| 14 | Kungla | Kungla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 reach | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 had | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hoped | conj |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 money | det |
| 20 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 pay | mark |
| 22 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 had | xcomp |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 passage | nmod:poss |
| 24 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pay | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hoped | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 hoped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | past | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | swim | gerund | I not said here | last reach | after the ship | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at reach=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | have | past | I | no money | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pay | to-infinitive | no money not said here | my passage | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Asset | ||||
| 5 | pass | my | nom passage «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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