The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 14

Now that the fog had lifted they could see as they looked back that, except just along the shore, the island was bare and deserted and not fit for men to live in; but about that nobody cared.

Who acts: sails, island, nobody · What happens: lift, see, look back, be, desert, not fit · To what, where: fog

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sails, island, nobody), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lifted	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 lifted	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fog	det
4	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lifted	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lifted	aux
6	lifted	lift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 see	aux
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lifted	parataxis
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 looked	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	nsubj
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 see	advcl
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 looked	advmod
14	that	that	ADV	_	12 looked	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 shore	punct
16	except	except	ADP	_	20 shore	case
17	just	just	ADV	_	20 shore	advmod
18	along	along	ADP	_	20 shore	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 shore	det
20	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lifted	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bare	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 island	det
23	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bare	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 bare	cop
25	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 shore	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 deserted	cc
27	deserted	desert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 bare	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fit	cc
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 fit	advmod
30	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 deserted	conj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 men	case
32	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fit	obl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 live	mark
34	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 men	acl
35	in	in	ADP	_	34 live	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 cared	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 cared	cc
38	about	about	SCONJ	_	41 cared	mark
39	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 nobody	det
40	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	41 cared	nsubj
41	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lifted	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lift	past · perfect · passive		the fog	now		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	see	could	sails = sail				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	look back	past	sails = sail			that property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	past	the island			bare property	tree rules
5	desert	participle	the island not said here				vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not fit	infinitive	the island not said here			for men	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
7	live in	to-infinitive	the island not said here				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	care	past	nobody				vn care-88.1-1 «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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