The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 98

But the vessel which carried them had not been gone many days when a thick fog came on, and the captain could see neither to the right nor to the left.

Who acts: vessel, thick fog, captain · What happens: carry, not go, come on, see · To what, where: courts, vessel

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 (vessel, thick fog, captain), 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	_	10 gone	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 vessel	det
3	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gone	nsubj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 carried	nsubj
5	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 vessel	acl:relcl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 carried	obj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 gone	advmod
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 gone	aux:pass
10	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 days	amod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gone	obl:unmarked
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 came	mark
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fog	det
15	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fog	amod
16	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 days	advcl
18	on	on	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 see	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 see	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 captain	det
22	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 see	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 see	aux
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 gone	advcl
25	neither	neither	ADV	_	24 see	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 right	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 right	det
28	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 see	obl
29	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	32 left	cc
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 left	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 left	det
32	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 right	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	the vessel	courts = court			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	not go	past · perfect · passive		the vessel	day		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	come on	past	a thick fog				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	could	the captain			to the right nor the left; neither property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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