The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 110
So Houarn went down to the sea, and found a boatman who engaged to take him to the isle of Lok.
Who acts: Houarn, boatman · What happens: go down, find, engage, take · To what, where: boatman, Houarn, isle
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Houarn, boatman), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Houarn | Houarn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 found | cc |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 boatman | det |
| 12 | boatman | boatman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 engaged | nsubj |
| 14 | engaged | engage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 boatman | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 take | mark |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 engaged | xcomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 isle | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 isle | det |
| 20 | isle | isle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Lok | case |
| 22 | Lok | Lok | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 isle | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | Houarn | to the sea; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Houarn not said here | a boatman | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boatman=Topic | ||||
| 3 | engage | past | a boatman | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | a boatman not said here | Houarn | the isle of Lok | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to isle=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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