The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 101
Whilst the King of Busan was raging and lamenting in this fashion, Simon’s ship was swimming like any fish under the sea, and when the island was well out of sight he brought it up to the surface again.
Who acts: King, ship · What happens: rage, lament, swim, be, bring up · To what, where: fashion, sea, sight, Island
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, 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 | Whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 7 raging | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 raging | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Busan | case |
| 5 | Busan | Busan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 raging | aux |
| 7 | raging | rage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lamenting | cc |
| 9 | lamenting | lament | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 raging | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 fashion | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 fashion | det |
| 12 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lamenting | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 swimming | punct |
| 14 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 ship | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Simon | case |
| 16 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 swimming | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 swimming | aux |
| 18 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 raging | advcl |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 fish | case |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 fish | det |
| 21 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 swimming | obl |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 24 sea | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sea | det |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 swimming | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sight | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 sight | cc |
| 27 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 30 was | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 island | det |
| 29 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 was | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 sight | cop |
| 31 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 was | advmod |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 sight | case |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 sight | case |
| 34 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 raging | obl |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 brought | nsubj |
| 36 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 sight | acl:relcl |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 brought | obj |
| 38 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 brought | compound:prt |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 surface | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 surface | det |
| 41 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 brought | obl |
| 42 | again | again | ADV | _ | 36 brought | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 raging | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rage | past · progressive | the King of Busan | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lament | gerund | the King of Busan not said here | this fashion | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | swim | past · progressive | Simon's ship | the sea | like any fish | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under sea=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | is | past | sight | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | bring up | past | king | Island | again | to the surface | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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