The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 125
As they went out the sea lay around them as white as now, and the spray was dashing right over the fisher-hut.
Who acts: storms, sea, spray · What happens: go out, lie around, dash · To what, where: storms, fisher hut
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storms, sea, spray), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | nsubj |
| 7 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | advcl |
| 8 | around | around | ADV | _ | 9 them | advmod |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lay | obl |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 white | advmod |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lay | xcomp |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 now | case |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 white | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dashing | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 dashing | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 spray | det |
| 17 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dashing | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 dashing | aux |
| 19 | dashing | dash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 20 | right | right | ADV | _ | 25 hut | advmod |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 hut | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hut | det |
| 23 | fisher | fisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hut | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 fisher | punct |
| 25 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dashing | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | storms = storm | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lie around | past | the sea | storms = storm | white property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | dash | past · progressive | the spray | the fisher hut | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hut=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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