The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 62
‘Whence comes this gust of wind?’ said Maie; and as she spoke the sea opened and swallowed up the steamer.
Who acts: Maie, sea · What happens: come, say, speak, open, swallow up · To what, where: gust, steamer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maie, sea), 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 | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 2 | Whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 comes | advmod |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 gust | det |
| 5 | gust | gust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 wind | case |
| 7 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gust | nmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Maie | Maie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 spoke | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spoke | cc |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 spoke | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 spoke | nsubj |
| 16 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 opened | nsubj |
| 19 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 spoke | ccomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 swallowed | cc |
| 21 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 spoke | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 swallowed | compound:prt |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 steamer | det |
| 24 | steamer | steamer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 swallowed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | this gust of wind | whence property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gust=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Maie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | Maie | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | open | past | the sea | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | swallow up | past | Maie not said here | the steamer | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steamer=Patient |
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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