The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 5
When at last they reached the deck and looked around them, nought of land could they see, or anything save the rushing waters.
Who acts: they, nought · What happens: reach, look, see, save, rush · To what, where: deck, last, anything · 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 (they, nought), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 reached | mark |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reached | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 deck | det |
| 7 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 looked | cc |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | conj |
| 10 | around | around | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 looked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
| 13 | nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | 18 see | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 land | case |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nought | nmod |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 anything | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 anything | cc |
| 21 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 save | obl |
| 22 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 waters | det |
| 24 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 waters | amod |
| 25 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 save | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | they | the deck | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent deck=Theme at last=Asset | |||
| 2 | look | past | they not said here | around them = they | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | could | nought | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | save | present | anything | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||||
| 5 | rush | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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