The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 52

Some of the shells got broken, some remained whole, and when all were ready Lasse had twelve boats.

Who acts: some, ready Lasse · What happens: break, remain, be, have · To what, where: Some, ready Lasse, twelve boats

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some, ready Lasse), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 broken	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 shells	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shells	det
4	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Some	nmod
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 broken	aux:pass
6	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 remained	punct
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 remained	nsubj
9	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 broken	conj
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 remained	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 had	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 had	advmod
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 Lasse	det
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 Lasse	cop
16	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Lasse	amod
17	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 broken	conj
19	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 boats	nummod
20	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 had	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 broken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	break	past · passive		Some		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	remain	past	some		whole property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past		all ready Lasse		tree rules
4	have	past	all ready Lasse	twelve boats		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=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 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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