The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 31

But it was not so easy to hit the shark’s mouth as he supposed, even when the creature had turned on his back, and the first kuyu only struck one of his teeth and rolled into the water.

Who acts: noise, first · What happens: not be, hit, suppose, turn, strike, roll · To what, where: mouth, creature, back, one, water

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, first), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 easy	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 easy	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 easy	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 easy	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 easy	advmod
6	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hit	mark
8	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 easy	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shark	det
10	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mouth	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 shark	case
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hit	obj
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 supposed	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 supposed	nsubj
15	supposed	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hit	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 turned	punct
17	even	even	ADV	_	22 turned	advmod
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 turned	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 creature	det
20	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 turned	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 turned	aux
22	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 supposed	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 back	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 back	nmod:poss
25	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 turned	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 struck	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 struck	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 first	det
29	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	32 struck	nsubj
30	kuyu	kuyu	X	Foreign=Yes	32 struck	nsubj
31	only	only	ADV	_	32 struck	advmod
32	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 easy	parataxis
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 struck	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 teeth	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 teeth	nmod:poss
36	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 one	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 rolled	cc
38	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 struck	conj
39	into	into	ADP	_	41 water	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 water	det
41	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 rolled	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 easy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past				easy property	tree rules
2	hit	to-infinitive		the shark's mouth			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mouth=Co-Theme
3	suppose	past	noise				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	turn	past · perfect · passive		the creature	noise's back		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
5	strike	past	the first	one of noise's teeth			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
6	roll	participle	the first not said here		the water		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=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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