The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 31

The sailors knew the island to be uninhabited, and were much surprised to see a man standing on the beach, waving his arms in welcome to them.

Who acts: sailors, man · What happens: know, be, see, stand, wave · To what, where: island, man, beach, arms, sailors

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sailors, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sailors	det
2	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 island	det
5	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 uninhabited	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 uninhabited	cop
8	uninhabited	uninhabited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 island	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 surprised	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 surprised	cc
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 surprised	cop
12	much	much	ADV	_	13 surprised	advmod
13	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knew	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 surprised	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obj
18	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 man	acl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 beach	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 beach	det
21	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 standing	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 waving	punct
23	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 standing	advcl
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 arms	nmod:poss
25	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 waving	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 welcome	case
27	welcome	welcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 waving	obl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 waving	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	the sailors	the island				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer island=Stimulus
2	is	to-infinitive	the sailors not said here	the island not said here			uninhabited property	tree rules
3	is	past	the sailors not said here				surprised property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	the sailors not said here	a man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
5	stand	gerund	a man not said here			the beach		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on beach=Location
6	wave	gerund	a man not said here	shrinking's arms	sailors = sailor		in welcome	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=Patient in welcome=Theme

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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