The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 91
Luckily for Tiidu an oar was floating near him, and with its help he was able to keep on the surface of the water; and when the sun rose, and the mist cleared away, he saw that he was not far from shore.
Who acts: oar, Tiidu, sun, mist · What happens: float, be, keep, rise, clear away, see · To what, where: surface, shore · 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 (oar, Tiidu, sun, mist), 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 | Luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 7 floating | advmod |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 Tiidu | case |
| 3 | Tiidu | Tiidu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Luckily | obl |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 oar | det |
| 5 | oar | oar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 floating | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 floating | aux |
| 7 | floating | float | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 floating | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 able | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 able | cc |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 help | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 help | nmod:poss |
| 14 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 able | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 able | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 able | cop |
| 17 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 floating | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 keep | mark |
| 19 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 able | xcomp |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 surface | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 surface | det |
| 22 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keep | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 water | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 water | det |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 surface | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 rose | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 rose | cc |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 rose | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sun | det |
| 30 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 rose | nsubj |
| 31 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 keep | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 cleared | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 cleared | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 mist | det |
| 35 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 cleared | nsubj |
| 36 | cleared | clear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 rose | conj |
| 37 | away | away | ADV | _ | 36 cleared | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 saw | punct |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 saw | nsubj |
| 40 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 cleared | conj |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 far | mark |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 far | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 far | cop |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 far | advmod |
| 45 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 40 saw | ccomp |
| 46 | from | from | ADP | _ | 47 shore | case |
| 47 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 far | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 floating | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | past · progressive | a oar | near Tiidu; luckily property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near he=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Tiidu | with oar's help; able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | Tiidu not said here | the surface of the water | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on surface=Location | ||||
| 4 | rise | past | the sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | clear away | past | the mist | away property | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | ||||
| 6 | see | past | Tiidu | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | not is | past | Tiidu | shore | far property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | help | oar | nom help «act transitive»: 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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