The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 66
The coast appeared to be strongly guarded, and from afar the watchman on a high tower called out: “Halt and anchor!
Who acts: coast · What happens: appear, guard, call out · To what, where: Halt, watchman, afar
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 (coast), 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 coast | det |
| 2 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 guarded | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 guarded | aux:pass |
| 6 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 7 guarded | advmod |
| 7 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 appeared | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 called | cc |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 afar | case |
| 11 | afar | afar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 watchman | det |
| 13 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 tower | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tower | det |
| 16 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tower | amod |
| 17 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 watchman | nmod |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 appeared | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 called | compound:prt |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 Halt | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Halt | punct |
| 22 | Halt | halt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 anchor | cc |
| 24 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Halt | conj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the coast | Halt and anchor | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | guard | to-infinitive · passive | the coast not said here | strongly property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING» | ||||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | participle · passive | the watchman on a high tower | afar | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from afar=Source |
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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