The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 54
After a long, long time came also a skipper who wished to see the mill.
Who acts: skipper · What happens: come, wish, see · To what, where: skipper, mill
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Why the Sea Is Salt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skipper), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 skipper | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 skipper | det |
| 10 | skipper | skipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 wished | nsubj |
| 12 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 skipper | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wished | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mill | det |
| 16 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a skipper | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | a skipper | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | a skipper not said here | the mill | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mill=Stimulus |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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