The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 92
So it was no wreckage after all that he had seen, but the bailiff himself.
Who acts: boat, stumble · What happens: be, see · To what, where: wreckage
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boat, stumble), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 wreckage | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wreckage | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wreckage | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 wreckage | det |
| 5 | wreckage | wreckage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 seen | mark |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 seen | det:predet |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 seen | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seen | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 wreckage | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bailiff | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 bailiff | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bailiff | det |
| 15 | bailiff | bailiff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wreckage | conj |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 15 bailiff | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wreckage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | boat | no wreckage but the bailiff stumble | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | stumble | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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