The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 92
So he promised, and this time a wave lifted the vessel clean off the rocks, and she was in the open sea once more.
Who acts: king, wave, time, vessel · What happens: promise, lift, clean off, be · To what, where: vessel, rocks, open sea · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king, wave, time, vessel), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 promised | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 clean | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 clean | cc |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 clean | nsubj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wave | det |
| 9 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 clean | nsubj |
| 10 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 wave | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 vessel | det |
| 12 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lifted | obj |
| 13 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 promised | ccomp |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 clean | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rocks | det |
| 16 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 clean | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sea | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sea | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sea | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sea | cop |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 sea | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sea | det |
| 23 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sea | amod |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 promised | parataxis |
| 25 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 more | advmod |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 promised | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | king | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | lift | participle | a wave not said here | the vessel | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme | ||||
| 3 | clean off | infinitive | this time | the rocks | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rock=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | vessel | the open sea | tree rules |
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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