The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 108

And to France they sailed, and, as he was the ship, the Gille Mairtean sailed where he would, and ran himself into the cleft of a rock, high on to the land.

Who acts: steps, France, Gille Mairtean · What happens: sail, be, run · To what, where: France, cleft

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steps, France, Gille Mairtean), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 sailed	cc
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 France	case
3	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sailed	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sailed	nsubj
5	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sailed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sailed	cc
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 and	punct
9	as	as	ADP	_	13 ship	case
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ship	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ship	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ship	det
13	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sailed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ship	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Mairtean	det
16	Gille	Gille	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Mairtean	compound
17	Mairtean	Mairtean	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 sailed	nsubj
18	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sailed	conj
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 would	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 would	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 sailed	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ran	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ran	cc
24	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sailed	conj
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 ran	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 cleft	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 cleft	det
28	cleft	cleft	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ran	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 rock	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 rock	det
31	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cleft	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 high	punct
33	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 cleft	amod
34	on	on	ADP	_	37 land	case
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 land	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 land	det
37	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 high	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sailed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sail	past	steps = step		France		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to france=Trajectory
2	is	past	France			as the ship	tree rules
3	sail	past	the Gille Mairtean				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	run	past	steps = step not said here	France	the cleft of a rock		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into cleft=Trajectory

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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