The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 21
But the wife of Iarlaid made a thick fog to cover the face of the sea, and the rowers could not row, lest they should drive the ship on to a rock.
Who acts: wife, rowers · What happens: make, cover, not row, drive on · To what, where: thick fog, face, ship, rock
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, rowers), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 made | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wife | det |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Iarlaid | case |
| 5 | Iarlaid | Iarlaid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wife | nmod |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fog | det |
| 8 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fog | amod |
| 9 | fog | fog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 cover | mark |
| 11 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fog | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 face | det |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cover | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 face | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 row | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 row | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rowers | det |
| 20 | rowers | rower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 row | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 row | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 row | advmod |
| 23 | row | row | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 made | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 drive | punct |
| 25 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 28 drive | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 drive | nsubj |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 drive | aux |
| 28 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 row | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ship | det |
| 30 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 drive | obj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 drive | compound:prt |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 rock | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 rock | det |
| 34 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 drive | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the wife of Iarlaid | a thick fog | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fog=Product | ||||
| 2 | cover | to-infinitive | the wife of Iarlaid not said here | the face of the sea | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Destination | ||||
| 3 | not row | could | the rowers | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | drive on | should | rowers = rower | the ship | a rock | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ship=Theme to rock=Trajectory |
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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