The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 66
The pea-shell boats had travelled so far that they only looked like little specks on the ocean.
Who acts: shell boats, frigates · What happens: travell, look
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 (shell boats, frigates), 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 | 5 boats | det |
| 2 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shell | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 pea | punct |
| 4 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boats | compound |
| 5 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 travelled | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 travelled | aux |
| 7 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 far | advmod |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 travelled | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 looked | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 looked | nsubj |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 looked | advmod |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 travelled | advcl |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 specks | case |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 specks | amod |
| 16 | specks | speck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 looked | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 ocean | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ocean | det |
| 19 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looked | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travell | past · perfect | the shell boats | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | past | frigates = frigate | like little specks; on the ocean | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on ocean=Theme |
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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