The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 75
The boat was already some distance out on the sea, and the wind, which blew from land, was driving it still further out.
Who acts: boat, wind · What happens: be, blow, drive · To what, where: distance, sea, boat
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 (boat, wind), 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 | 2 boat | det |
| 2 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 distance | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 distance | cop |
| 4 | already | already | ADV | _ | 6 distance | advmod |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 distance | det |
| 6 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 distance | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 distance | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 driving | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 driving | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wind | det |
| 14 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 driving | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 blew | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 blew | nsubj |
| 17 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wind | acl:relcl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 land | case |
| 19 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 blew | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 blew | punct |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 driving | aux |
| 22 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 distance | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 driving | obj |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 further | advmod |
| 25 | further | further | ADV | _ | 26 out | advmod |
| 26 | out | out | ADV | _ | 22 driving | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 distance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the boat | some distance | the sea | out property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | blow | past | the wind | from land | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from land=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | drive | past · progressive | the wind | boat | out property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |
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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