The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 13
But when they are seated in it a raging wind will rise and whirl the carriage away into the clouds.
Who acts: raging wind · What happens: seat, rage, rise, whirl · To what, where: prince, bridge, carriage
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (raging wind), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 rise | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 seated | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 seated | aux:pass |
| 5 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 rise | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seated | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wind | det |
| 9 | raging | rage | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 wind | amod |
| 10 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rise | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 rise | aux |
| 12 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 whirl | cc |
| 14 | whirl | whirl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 rise | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 carriage | det |
| 16 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 whirl | obj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 whirl | advmod |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 clouds | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 clouds | det |
| 20 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 away | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 rise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | present · passive | prince | bridge | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in it=Location | ||||
| 2 | rage | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | rise | future | a raging wind | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | whirl | infinitive | a raging wind not said here | the carriage | away property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent carriage=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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