The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 14

Well, the daylight came at last, and the great chest was driven by the waves against the shore of an island.

Who acts: daylight, waves · What happens: come, drive · To what, where: last, great chest

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daylight, waves), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 daylight	det
4	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 last	case
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 driven	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 driven	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chest	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 chest	amod
12	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 driven	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 driven	aux:pass
14	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 came	conj
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 waves	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 waves	det
17	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 driven	obl:agent
18	against	against	ADP	_	20 shore	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 shore	det
20	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 waves	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 island	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 island	det
23	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shore	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the daylight			last			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
2	drive	past · passive	the waves against the shore of a island	the great chest					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme subject=Trajectory

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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