The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 92
By hard swimming, for the sea still ran high, he managed to reach it, and pulled himself out of the water, more dead than alive.
Who acts: Tiidu · What happens: run, manage, reach, pull · To what, where: sea, Tiidu, 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), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 swimming | case |
| 2 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 swimming | amod |
| 3 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 swimming | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swimming | nmod |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 ran | advmod |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ran | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 managed | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 managed | nsubj |
| 13 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ran | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 reach | mark |
| 15 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 managed | xcomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 reach | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pulled | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pulled | cc |
| 19 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ran | conj |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 pulled | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 water | det |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pulled | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 dead | punct |
| 26 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 dead | amod |
| 27 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pulled | advcl |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 alive | case |
| 29 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 dead | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | still | by hard swimming for the sea; high property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by swimming=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | manage | past | Tiidu | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | reach | to-infinitive | Tiidu not said here | sea | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pull | past | Tiidu | the water | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent himself=Theme out water=Initial_Location |
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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