The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 82
Perhaps he would be lost out on the great sea.
What happens: lose out · To what, where: Lasse, great sea
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: 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 lost | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lost | aux:pass |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 lost | compound:prt |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sea | amod |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lost | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose out | would · passive | Lasse | the great sea | perhaps property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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