The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 9
He had not proceeded far when he found it cast up on the shore, and so full of fish that not a mesh was visible.
Who acts: man, head, fish · What happens: not proceed, find, cast up, be · To what, where: head, shore
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 (man, head, fish), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 proceeded | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 proceeded | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 proceeded | advmod |
| 4 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 proceeded | advmod |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 found | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 proceeded | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | obj |
| 10 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 found | xcomp |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 cast | compound:prt |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 shore | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shore | det |
| 14 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cast | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 full | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 full | cc |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 full | advmod |
| 18 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 proceeded | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 fish | case |
| 20 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 full | obl |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 visible | nsubj |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 mesh | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 mesh | det |
| 24 | mesh | mesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 visible | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 visible | cop |
| 26 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fish | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 proceeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not proceed | past · perfect | man | far property | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | past | man | head | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cast up | participle | head not said here | the shore | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on shore=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is | past | fish | visible property | tree rules |
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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