The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 16
Some of the ships had foundered, and some had drifted back to land.
What happens: founder, drift · To what, where: ships, some
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: 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 ships | det |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 ships | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ships | det |
| 4 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 foundered | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 foundered | aux |
| 6 | foundered | founder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drifted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drifted | cc |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 drifted | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 drifted | aux |
| 11 | drifted | drift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 foundered | conj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 drifted | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 land | case |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 back | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 foundered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | founder | past · perfect · passive | some ships | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | drift | past · perfect · passive | some | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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