The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 71

Pinkel was much pleased at the thought of his adventure, and without more ado he borrowed a little boat which lay moored to the shore, and rowed over to the island at once.

Who acts: Pinkel · What happens: be, borrow, moor, row over, think, adventure · To what, where: thought, little boat, island, adventure

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 (Pinkel), 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	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pleased	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pleased	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 pleased	advmod
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 thought	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thought	det
7	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pleased	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 adventure	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 adventure	nmod:poss
10	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thought	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 borrowed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 borrowed	cc
13	without	without	ADP	_	15 ado	case
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 ado	amod
15	ado	ado	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 borrowed	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 borrowed	nsubj
17	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pleased	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 boat	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 boat	amod
20	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 borrowed	obj
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 moored	nsubj:pass
22	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 moored	aux:pass
23	moored	moor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 boat	acl:relcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 shore	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 shore	det
26	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 moored	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 rowed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 rowed	cc
29	rowed	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 borrowed	conj
30	over	over	ADP	_	29 rowed	compound:prt
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 island	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 island	det
33	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rowed	obl
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 once	case
35	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 rowed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Pinkel		the thought of Pinkel's adventure	pleased property	tree rules
2	borrow	past	Pinkel	a little boat		without more ado	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme
3	moor	past · passive		a little boat		to the shore	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to shore=Co-Patient
4	row over	past	Pinkel not said here		the island		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to island=Trajectory
5	think			Pinkel's adventure			nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient
6	adventure		Pinkel				nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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