The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 25

Then they sailed away through the fog, and none saw them; and they reached the land of Lochlann, and the lion cub with the chain round his neck sprang from the ship and Manus followed after.

Who acts: eyes, none, neck, Manus · What happens: sail away, see, reach, spring, follow · To what, where: fog, eyes, land, ship

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 (eyes, none, neck, Manus), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sailed	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sailed	nsubj
3	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 sailed	advmod
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 fog	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fog	det
7	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sailed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 saw	cc
10	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sailed	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 reached	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 reached	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 reached	nsubj
16	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sailed	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 land	det
18	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reached	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Lochlann	case
20	Lochlann	Lochlann	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 land	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cub	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cub	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cub	det
24	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cub	compound
25	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reached	obl
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 chain	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 chain	det
28	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cub	nmod
29	round	round	ADP	_	32 sprang	mark
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 neck	nmod:poss
31	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sprang	nsubj
32	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 reached	advcl
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 ship	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 ship	det
35	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sprang	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 followed	cc
37	Manus	Manus	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 followed	nsubj
38	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sprang	conj
39	after	after	ADV	_	38 followed	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sailed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail away	past	eyes = eye		the fog	then	away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through fog=Trajectory
2	see	past	none	eyes = eye				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	reach	past	eyes = eye	the land of Lochlann			the lion cub with the chain obl	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent land=Theme
4	spring	past	voice's neck		the ship			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from ship=Trajectory
5	follow	past	Manus				after property	vn occur-48.3-1 «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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