The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 65
They pushed off, but as they dipped the paddles into the water, they snapped as the bows had done, and were quite useless.
Who acts: Mink · What happens: push off, dip, snap, do, be · To what, where: paddles, water, bows
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mink), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pushed | nsubj |
| 2 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 pushed | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 snapped | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 snapped | cc |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 dipped | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dipped | nsubj |
| 8 | dipped | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 snapped | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 paddles | det |
| 10 | paddles | paddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dipped | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 water | det |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dipped | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dipped | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 snapped | nsubj |
| 16 | snapped | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pushed | parataxis |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 done | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bows | det |
| 19 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 done | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 done | aux |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 snapped | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 useless | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 useless | cc |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 useless | cop |
| 25 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 26 useless | advmod |
| 26 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pushed | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push off | past | Mink | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | dip | past | Mink | the paddles | the water | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paddle=Theme into water=Destination | |||
| 3 | snap | past | Mink | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect · passive | the bows | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Mink not said here | useless property | tree rules |
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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