The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 92
Away they sailed, and the ladies stretched out their hands, but weren’t able to say a word.
Who acts: people · What happens: sail, stretch out, not be, say · To what, where: ladies, word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 3 sailed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sailed | nsubj |
| 3 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stretched | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stretched | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ladies | det |
| 7 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sailed | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 stretched | compound:prt |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hands | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stretched | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 able | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 able | cc |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 able | cop |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 able | advmod |
| 16 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sailed | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 say | mark |
| 18 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 able | xcomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 word | det |
| 20 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 say | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | people | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stretch out | participle · passive | the ladies | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient hand=Result | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | people not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | people not said here | a word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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