The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 65
The ship cut through the waters like a falcon through the air, and just a week after starting sighted the Island of Busan.
Who acts: week, ship · What happens: cut, start, sight · To what, where: ship, waters, 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 (week, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ship | det |
| 2 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sighted | nsubj |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ship | acl |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 waters | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 waters | det |
| 6 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cut | obl |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 falcon | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 falcon | det |
| 9 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waters | nmod |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 air | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 air | det |
| 12 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 week | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 week | cc |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 week | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 week | det |
| 17 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ship | appos |
| 18 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 19 starting | mark |
| 19 | starting | start | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 week | acl |
| 20 | sighted | sight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Island | det |
| 22 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 sighted | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Busan | case |
| 24 | Busan | Busan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Island | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 sighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | participle | the ship not said here | the waters like a falcon | through the air | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through water=Initial_Location through air=Destination | |||
| 2 | start | gerund | a week not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | sight | past | the ship | the Island of Busan | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer island=Stimulus |
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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