The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 87

The vessel had not gone very far when she ran upon a rock, and stuck so fast in a cleft that the strength of the whole crew could not get her off again.

Who acts: vessel, strength · What happens: not go, run, stick, not get off · To what, where: rock, cleft, vessel

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vessel, strength), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 vessel	det
2	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 gone	advmod
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 far	advmod
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 gone	advmod
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 ran	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ran	nsubj
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	advcl
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 rock	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 rock	det
13	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ran	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stuck	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stuck	cc
16	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	parataxis
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 fast	advmod
18	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 stuck	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 cleft	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cleft	det
21	cleft	cleft	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stuck	obl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 get	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 strength	det
24	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 get	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 crew	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 crew	det
27	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 crew	amod
28	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 strength	nmod
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 get	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 get	advmod
31	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 stuck	advcl
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 get	obj
33	off	off	ADP	_	31 get	compound:prt
34	again	again	ADV	_	31 get	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	the vessel				far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	past	vessel		a rock			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon rock=Trajectory
3	stick	past			a cleft		fast property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cleft=Destination
4	not get off	could	the strength of the whole crew	vessel		again		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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