The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 100
The wind was fierce and cold, and long was the voyage; but, one spring day, they sailed into the harbour that lay beneath the castle of Iarlaid.
Who acts: wind, voyage, sons, harbour · What happens: be, sail, lie · To what, where: harbour, castle
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, voyage, sons, harbour), 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 wind | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fierce | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fierce | cop |
| 4 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cold | cc |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fierce | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 long | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 long | cc |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fierce | parataxis |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 long | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 voyage | det |
| 12 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 sailed | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 sailed | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 day | punct |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 day | nummod |
| 17 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 day | compound |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sailed | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 day | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sailed | nsubj |
| 21 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fierce | parataxis |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 harbour | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 harbour | det |
| 24 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sailed | obl |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 lay | nsubj |
| 26 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 harbour | acl:relcl |
| 27 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 29 castle | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 castle | det |
| 29 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lay | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Iarlaid | case |
| 31 | Iarlaid | Iarlaid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 castle | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fierce | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the wind | fierce property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the wind not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | past | the voyage | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sail | past | sons = son | the harbour | day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into harbour=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | lie | past | the harbour | the castle of Iarlaid | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath castle=Location |
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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