The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 15
The head of the boat stood out to sea, and he was left alone on the island.
Who acts: head · What happens: stand out, leave · To what, where: head, island
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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 head | det |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 boat | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boat | det |
| 5 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 head | nmod |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 stood | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 left | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 left | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 left | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 left | aux:pass |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stood | conj |
| 15 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 left | xcomp |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 island | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 island | det |
| 18 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand out | past | the head of the boat | to sea | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · passive | head | the island | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on island=Location |
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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