The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 100

On one side of the cliff lay a sheltered bay, in which the vessel was soon anchored, and though they did not know where they were, at any rate they felt sure of fresh fruit and water.

Who acts: ship · What happens: lie, shelter, anchor, not know, be, feel · To what, where: sheltered bay, one side, vessel, rate

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ship), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 side	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 side	nummod
3	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cliff	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cliff	det
6	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 side	nmod
7	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bay	det
9	sheltered	shelter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 bay	amod
10	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 anchored	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 anchored	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 vessel	det
15	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 anchored	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 anchored	aux:pass
17	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 anchored	advmod
18	anchored	anchor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lay	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 know	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 know	cc
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	25 know	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 know	nsubj
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 know	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 know	advmod
25	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 lay	conj
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 rate	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 rate	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 rate	cop
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 rate	punct
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 rate	case
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	32 rate	det
32	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 know	obl
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 felt	nsubj
34	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 rate	acl:relcl
35	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 felt	xcomp
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 fruit	case
37	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 fruit	amod
38	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sure	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 water	cc
40	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fruit	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past		a sheltered bay	one side of the cliff		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bay=Theme
2	shelter	participle					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	anchor	past · passive		the vessel		soon property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	not know	past · do-support	ship				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	ship		any rate		tree rules
6	feel	past	ship	any rate not said here		sure property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rate=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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