The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 37
In spite of the efforts of the frightened sailors the vessel was driven on the rocks, and not a man on board was saved.
What happens: frighten, drive, save, spite · To what, where: spite, man, efforts
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 spite | case |
| 2 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 driven | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 efforts | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 efforts | det |
| 5 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spite | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sailors | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sailors | det |
| 8 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sailors | amod |
| 9 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 efforts | nmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 vessel | det |
| 11 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sailors | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 driven | aux:pass |
| 13 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 rocks | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rocks | det |
| 16 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 driven | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 saved | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 saved | cc |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 man | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 saved | nsubj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 board | case |
| 23 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 man | nmod |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 saved | aux:pass |
| 25 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 driven | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 driven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | drive | past · passive | spite of the efforts of the frightened sailors the vessel | on the rocks | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: in spite=Destination on rock=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | save | past · passive | a man on board | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | spite | the efforts of the frightened sailors the vessel | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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