The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 90

Orders were given to lower the boats, and Tiidu with three sailors got into one of them, but before they could push away from the ship a huge wave overturned it, and all four were flung into the water.

Who acts: Tiidu, orders, huge wave · What happens: give, lower, get, push away, overturn, fling · To what, where: Orders, boats, one, boat, four, water

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, orders, huge wave), 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	Orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 lower	case
5	lower	lower	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 given	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boats	det
7	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lower	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 got	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 got	cc
10	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 got	nsubj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 sailors	case
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 sailors	nummod
13	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 Tiidu	nmod
14	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 given	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	16 one	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 got	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 one	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 push	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 push	cc
21	before	before	SCONJ	_	24 push	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 push	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 push	aux
24	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 given	parataxis
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 push	advmod
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 ship	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ship	det
28	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 push	obl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 wave	det
30	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 wave	amod
31	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 overturned	nsubj
32	overturned	overturn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 ship	acl:relcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 overturned	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 flung	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 flung	cc
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 four	det
37	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 flung	nsubj:pass
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 flung	aux:pass
39	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 given	conj
40	into	into	ADP	_	42 water	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 water	det
42	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 flung	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		Orders			tree rules
2	lower	infinitive		the boats			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme
3	get	past	Tiidu with three sailors	one of orders			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
4	push away	could	orders = order			from the ship; away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from ship=Co-Patient
5	overturn	past	a huge wave	boat			tree rules
6	fling	past · passive		all four	the water		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme into water=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 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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