The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 29

The people on the rocks and in the ships that saw them pass said to each other:

Who acts: ships, people · What happens: see, pass, say · To what, where: people, each · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ships, people), 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 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pass	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 rocks	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rocks	det
5	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 people	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ships	cc
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 ships	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ships	det
9	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rocks	conj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ships	acl:relcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	obj
13	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 pass	acl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 each	case
16	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	14 said	obl
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 each	fixed
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 pass	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	see	past	the ships	people		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	pass	infinitive	the people on the rocks and the ships			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	participle			each	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient

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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