The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 41

Then he turned his eyes in the other direction, and, far, far away, he caught sight of the ship with her sails spread, and a fair wind behind her.

Who acts: head, sails · What happens: turn, catch, spread, sight · To what, where: eyes, sight, ship

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, sails), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 turned	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eyes	nmod:poss
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turned	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 direction	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 direction	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 direction	amod
9	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 caught	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 caught	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 far	punct
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 caught	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 away	punct
15	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 away	advmod
16	away	away	ADV	_	13 far	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 far	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 caught	nsubj
19	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
20	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 caught	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 ship	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ship	det
23	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sight	nmod
24	with	with	SCONJ	_	27 spread	mark
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 sails	nmod:poss
26	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 spread	nsubj
27	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 caught	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 wind	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 wind	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 wind	det
31	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 wind	amod
32	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
33	behind	behind	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 wind	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	head	head's eyes	then	in the other direction; a fair wind behind palace obl	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Patient in direction=Topic
2	catch	past	head	sight of the ship		far property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
3	spread	present	palace's sails				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sight			the ship			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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