The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 2
And a boat was brought, and Ian Direach stepped in to row it to the side of the ship.
Who acts: Ian · What happens: bring, step in, row · To what, where: boat, side
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ian), 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 brought | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 boat | det |
| 3 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux:pass |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stepped | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stepped | cc |
| 8 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 stepped | nsubj |
| 9 | Direach | Direach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ian | flat |
| 10 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 stepped | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 row | mark |
| 13 | row | row | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 stepped | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 row | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 side | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 side | det |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 row | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 ship | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ship | det |
| 20 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 side | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | a boat | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | step in | past | Ian | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | row | to-infinitive | Ian not said here | boat | the side of the ship | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme to side=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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