The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 91

‘Last night was so stormy, and we caught so little,’ urged his wife; ‘to-night the sea is like a mirror, and with the wind in this direction the herring are drawing towards land.’

Who acts: Last night, we, stormy, night, mirror · What happens: be, catch, urge, draw · To what, where: little, wife, land

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 (Last night, we, stormy, night), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 stormy	punct
2	Last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stormy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stormy	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 stormy	advmod
6	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 urged	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 caught	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 caught	cc
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 caught	nsubj
10	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stormy	conj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 little	advmod
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 caught	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stormy	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 stormy	punct
15	urged	urge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wife	nmod:poss
17	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 urged	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 mirror	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 night	punct
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 night	case
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 to	punct
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 mirror	nsubj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sea	det
24	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 mirror	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 mirror	cop
26	like	like	ADP	_	28 mirror	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 mirror	det
28	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 drawing	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 wind	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 wind	cc
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 wind	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 wind	det
33	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 mirror	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 direction	case
35	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 direction	det
36	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wind	nmod
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 herring	det
38	herring	herring	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 direction	nmod:unmarked
39	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 drawing	aux
40	drawing	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 urged	ccomp
41	towards	towards	ADP	_	42 land	case
42	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 drawing	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 drawing	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 urged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Last night			stormy property	tree rules
2	catch	past	we	little			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme
3	urge	past	stormy	husband's wife			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic
4	is	present	night			like a mirror and the wind in this direction the herring	tree rules
5	draw	present · progressive	a mirror and the wind in this direction the herring		land		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent towards land=Destination

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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