The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 58

The great island over there was Asia; that large stone Africa; the little island America; the small stones were Polynesia; and the shore from which the ships sailed out was Europe.

Who acts: small stones, ships, shore · What happens: be, sail out · To what, where: Asia, Polynesia, shore, Europe

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 (small stones, ships, shore), 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	3 island	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 island	amod
3	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	7 Asia	case
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 Asia	expl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Asia	cop
7	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 island	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 stone	punct
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 stone	det
10	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stone	amod
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 island	conj
12	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 stone	appos
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 island	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 island	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 island	amod
16	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 island	conj
17	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 island	appos
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 Polynesia	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stones	det
20	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stones	amod
21	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 Polynesia	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 Polynesia	cop
23	Polynesia	Polynesia	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 island	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 Europe	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 Europe	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 shore	det
27	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Europe	nsubj
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 sailed	obl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ships	det
31	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sailed	nsubj
32	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 shore	acl:relcl
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 sailed	compound:prt
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 Europe	cop
35	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 island	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 island	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is	past			Asia; there	tree rules
2	is a	past	the small stones	Polynesia		tree rules
3	sail out	past	the ships		the shore	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from which=Trajectory
4	is a	past	the shore	Europe		tree rules

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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