The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 82

We had stormy weather during the night, and when it was past I did not wish to waken you, so rowed out alone to rescue the net.’

Who acts: We, it · What happens: have, not be, waken, row out, rescue · To what, where: stormy weather, you, net

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 (We, it), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 weather	amod
4	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	during	during	ADP	_	7 night	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wish	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wish	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 wish	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wish	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wish	cop
13	past	past	ADP	_	17 wish	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 wish	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wish	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 wish	advmod
17	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 waken	mark
19	waken	waken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wish	xcomp
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 waken	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rowed	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 rowed	advmod
23	rowed	row	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 wish	parataxis
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 rowed	compound:prt
25	alone	alone	ADV	_	23 rowed	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 rescue	mark
27	rescue	rescue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 rowed	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 net	det
29	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rescue	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 wish	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	We	stormy weather	night		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=Patient
2	not is	past · do-support	it			wish property	tree rules
3	waken not said to happen	to-infinitive		you			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient
4	row out	participle				alone property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	rescue	to-infinitive		the net			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/24/82/