The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 70

Alas!' said one, 'seven of us started from the other bank and one must have been drowned on the crossing, as we can only find six remaining!'

Who acts: seven, we, six · What happens: say, start, drown, find, remain · To what, where: one, other bank, crossing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seven, we, six), 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	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Alas	punct
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 said	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 seven	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 seven	punct
8	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 started	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 us	case
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 seven	nmod
11	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 bank	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bank	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bank	amod
15	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 started	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 drowned	cc
17	one	one	PRON	PronType=Ind	21 drowned	nsubj:pass
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 drowned	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 drowned	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 drowned	aux:pass
21	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 started	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 crossing	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 crossing	det
24	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drowned	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 find	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 find	mark
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 find	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 find	aux
29	only	only	ADV	_	30 find	advmod
30	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 drowned	advcl
31	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 remaining	nsubj
32	remaining	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 find	xcomp
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		one		tree rules
2	start	past	seven of us		the other bank	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	drown	must · perfect · passive		one	the crossing	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	find	can	we			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	remain	gerund	six			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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