The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 35
How perilous are voyages at sea, how uncertain the winds and the waves, and how many accidents attend a naval life!
Who acts: perilous voyages · What happens: be, attend · To what, where: perilous voyages, sea, naval life
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (perilous voyages), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 perilous | advmod |
| 2 | perilous | perilous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 voyages | amod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 voyages | cop |
| 4 | voyages | voyage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 attend | nsubj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 voyages | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 winds | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 uncertain | advmod |
| 9 | uncertain | uncertain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 winds | amod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 winds | det |
| 11 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 voyages | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 waves | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 waves | det |
| 14 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 winds | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 attend | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 attend | cc |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 many | advmod |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 accidents | amod |
| 19 | accidents | accident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 attend | nsubj |
| 20 | attend | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 life | det |
| 22 | naval | naval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 life | amod |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 attend | obj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 attend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | perilous voyages and the uncertain winds and the waves | sea | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | attend | present | perilous voyages and the uncertain winds and the waves | a naval life | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme life=Goal |
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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