The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 99
For a whole month the ship drifted about in darkness, till at length the fog lifted and they beheld a cliff jutting out just in front.
Who acts: ship, fog · What happens: drift, lift, behold, jut out · To what, where: length, cliff, front
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, fog), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 month | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 month | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 month | amod |
| 4 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drifted | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ship | det |
| 6 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drifted | nsubj |
| 7 | drifted | drift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 darkness | case |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 darkness | case |
| 10 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drifted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lifted | punct |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 lifted | mark |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 length | case |
| 14 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lifted | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fog | det |
| 16 | fog | fog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lifted | nsubj |
| 17 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 drifted | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 beheld | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 beheld | nsubj |
| 20 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 lifted | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cliff | det |
| 22 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 beheld | obj |
| 23 | jutting | jut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 beheld | advcl |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 jutting | compound:prt |
| 25 | just | just | ADV | _ | 27 front | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 front | case |
| 27 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 jutting | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 drifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drift | past | the ship | month | about darkness | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about darkness=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | lift | past | the fog | length | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at length=Destination | ||||
| 3 | behold | past | ship | a cliff | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cliff=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | jut out | gerund | ship not said here | front | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location |
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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