The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 95
A long way off in the winter mist they could see the explorer Nordenskiold with his ship Vega trying to find an opening between the ice.
Who acts: ships, ship · What happens: see, try, find · To what, where: long way, winter mist, opening
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 (ships, ship), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 way | amod |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | off | off | ADV | _ | 3 way | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 mist | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mist | det |
| 7 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mist | compound |
| 8 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 explorer | det |
| 13 | explorer | explorer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obj |
| 14 | Nordenskiold | Nordenskiold | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 explorer | appos |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 ship | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 ship | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obl |
| 18 | Vega | Vega | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 ship | appos |
| 19 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 ship | acl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 find | mark |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 trying | xcomp |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 opening | det |
| 23 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 find | obj |
| 24 | between | between | ADP | _ | 26 ice | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ice | det |
| 26 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 opening | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | ships = ship | a long way | the winter mist | with Nordenskiold's ship | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer explorer=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | try | gerund | Nordenskiold's ship not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | Nordenskiold's ship not said here | a opening | between the ice | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opening=Topic |
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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