The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 127
To launch the boat and put to sea to rescue the net was a thing not to be thought of.
Who acts: net · What happens: launch, put, rescue, be, not think · To what, where: boat, thing
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 (net), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 launch | mark |
| 2 | launch | launch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boat | det |
| 4 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 launch | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 put | cc |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 launch | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 rescue | mark |
| 10 | rescue | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 put | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 net | det |
| 12 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thing | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 thing | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 thing | det |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rescue | parataxis |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 thought | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 thought | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 thought | aux:pass |
| 19 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 thing | acl:relcl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 thought | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 launch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | launch | to-infinitive | the boat | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | |||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | to sea | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rescue | to-infinitive | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | the net | a thing | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not think speech: other | to-infinitive · passive | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V» |
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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