The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 7

In a moment it was out of sight, and no man could have told the spot where it had sunk, except for a tiny scrap of paper floating on the water.

Who acts: sea, paper · What happens: be, tell, sink, float · To what, where: sight, man, spot, sea, water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea, paper), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sight	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sight	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sight	cop
6	out	out	ADP	_	8 sight	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 sight	case
8	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	nsubj:pass
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 told	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 told	aux
15	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 sight	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 spot	det
17	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	iobj
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 sunk	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sunk	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sunk	aux
21	sunk	sink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 spot	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 scrap	punct
23	except	except	ADP	_	27 scrap	case
24	for	for	ADP	_	27 scrap	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 scrap	det
26	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 scrap	amod
27	scrap	scrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sunk	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 paper	case
29	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 scrap	nmod
30	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 paper	acl
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 water	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 water	det
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 floating	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	sea			sight	moment		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	could · perfect · passive		no man	the spot				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient spot=Topic
3	sink	past · perfect · passive		sea				except a tiny scrap of paper	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	float	gerund	paper not said here			the water			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory

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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