The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 12
The wind had turned, and the boat had drifted out with one wind and drifted in with another while Little Lasse slept, and what Lasse thought was frizzling in a frying-pan was the low murmur of the waves as they washed against the stones on the shore.
Who acts: Little Lasse, Lasse, low murmur, frizzling, waves · What happens: turn, drift out, drift, sleep, think, frizzle · To what, where: wind, boat, another, frying pan, low murmur, shore · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Lasse, Lasse, low murmur, frizzling), 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 wind | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | aux |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drifted | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 drifted | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boat | det |
| 8 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drifted | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 drifted | aux |
| 10 | drifted | drift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 turned | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 drifted | compound:prt |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 wind | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 wind | nummod |
| 14 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drifted | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 drifted | cc |
| 16 | drifted | drift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 turned | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 another | case |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 another | case |
| 19 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 drifted | obl |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 slept | mark |
| 21 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Lasse | amod |
| 22 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 slept | nsubj |
| 23 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 drifted | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 frizzling | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 frizzling | cc |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 frizzling | nsubj:outer |
| 27 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 thought | nsubj |
| 28 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 what | acl:relcl |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 frizzling | aux |
| 30 | frizzling | frizzle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 murmur | csubj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 pan | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 pan | det |
| 33 | frying | frying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 pan | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 frying | punct |
| 35 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 frizzling | obl |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 murmur | cop |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 murmur | det |
| 38 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 murmur | amod |
| 39 | murmur | murmur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | parataxis |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 waves | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 waves | det |
| 42 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 murmur | nmod |
| 43 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 45 washed | mark |
| 44 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 washed | nsubj |
| 45 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | advcl |
| 46 | against | against | ADP | _ | 48 stones | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 stones | det |
| 48 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 washed | obl |
| 49 | on | on | ADP | _ | 51 shore | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 shore | det |
| 51 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 washed | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past · perfect · passive | the wind | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | drift out | past · perfect · passive | the boat | with one wind | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drift | participle | another | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in another=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | sleep | past | Little Lasse | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | Lasse | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | frizzle | past · progressive | the low murmur | a frying pan | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be speech: other | past | frizzling | the low murmur | of the waves | tree rules | |||
| 8 | wash | past | waves = wave | the shore | against the stones | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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