The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 89

For two days they ran before it, and hoped that by keeping well out to sea they might be able to weather the storm, when, suddenly, the ship struck on a rock, and began to fill.

Who acts: ship · What happens: run, hope, keep, be, strike, begin · To what, where: wind, weather, ship, rock · 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 (ship), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ran	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	before	before	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ran	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hoped	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hoped	cc
10	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 able	mark
12	by	by	SCONJ	_	13 keeping	mark
13	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 able	csubj
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 out	advmod
15	out	out	ADV	_	13 keeping	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 sea	case
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 out	obl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 able	nsubj
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 able	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 able	cop
21	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hoped	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 weather	mark
23	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 able	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 storm	det
25	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 weather	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 ship	punct
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 ship	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 ship	punct
29	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	32 ship	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 ship	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ship	det
32	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 storm	appos
33	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 ship	acl
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 rock	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 rock	det
36	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 struck	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 began	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 began	cc
39	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 fill	mark
41	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 began	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	ship		wind	day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before it=Trajectory
2	hope	past	ship not said here					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	keep	gerund					out property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	might	ship	weather and the storm			able property	tree rules
5	strike	participle		the ship not said here	a rock			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rock=Location
6	begin	past	ship not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	fill	to-infinitive	ship not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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: «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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