The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 3

To the further side he rowed, so that none could see, and when he helped the princess on board he gave a push to the boat, so that she could not get back to it again.

Who acts: Ian, none, princess · What happens: row, see, help, give, not get back · To what, where: princess, board, push, boat · Speech: someone speaks here

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, none, princess), 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	To	to	ADP	_	4 side	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 side	det
3	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 side	amod
4	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rowed	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rowed	nsubj
6	rowed	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
8	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 see	mark
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 so	fixed
10	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	12 see	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 see	aux
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 rowed	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gave	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 gave	cc
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 helped	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 helped	nsubj
17	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 gave	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 princess	det
19	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 helped	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 board	case
21	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 helped	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gave	nsubj
23	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 see	ccomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 push	det
25	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gave	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 boat	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 boat	det
28	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gave	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 get	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	35 get	advmod
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 get	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 get	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 get	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 get	advmod
35	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 see	conj
36	back	back	ADV	_	35 get	advmod
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 back	obl
39	again	again	ADV	_	35 get	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	row	past	Ian					to the further side	tree rules
2	see	could	none						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	help	past	Ian		the princess	board			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Beneficiary
4	give	past	Ian	a push	the boat				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent push=Theme to boat=Recipient
5	not get back	could	princess				again		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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