The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 32

A boat was put off, and two sailors rowed to the shore to discover how he came there, and if he wished to be taken away.

Who acts: two sailors, shrinking · What happens: put off, row, discover, come, wish, take away · To what, where: boat, shore

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 (two sailors, shrinking), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boat	det
2	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux:pass
4	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 put	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rowed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rowed	cc
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 sailors	nummod
9	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rowed	nsubj
10	rowed	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 shore	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shore	det
13	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rowed	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 discover	mark
15	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 rowed	advcl
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 came	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 discover	advcl
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 came	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wished	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wished	cc
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 wished	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wished	nsubj
24	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	27 taken	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 taken	aux:pass
27	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 wished	xcomp
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 taken	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put off	past · passive		a boat			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
2	row	past	two sailors		the shore		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to shore=Trajectory
3	discover	to-infinitive	two sailors not said here				vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	shrinking		there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wish a condition, not said to happen	past	shrinking				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	take away not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	shrinking not said here			away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»

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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