The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 56

Little Lasse put all the twelve into the water, and they floated as splendidly and as proudly as any great ships over the waves of the ocean.

Who acts: Little Lasse, liners · What happens: put, float, wave · To what, where: twelve, water, ocean

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 (Little Lasse, liners), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Lasse	amod
2	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 twelve	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 twelve	det
6	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 put	obl
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 floated	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 floated	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 floated	nsubj
13	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	parataxis
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 splendidly	case
15	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 floated	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 proudly	cc
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 proudly	advmod
18	proudly	proudly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 floated	conj
19	as	as	ADP	_	22 ships	case
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 ships	det
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ships	amod
22	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 proudly	obl
23	over	over	ADP	_	25 waves	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 waves	det
25	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 ships	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 ocean	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ocean	det
28	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 waves	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	put	past	Little Lasse	all twelve	the water	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	float	past	liners = liner			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wave			the ocean		nom wave «event 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 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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