The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 36

The ship that had the cat on board was long beaten at sea, and at last, by contrary winds, driven on a part of the coast of Barbary which was inhabited by Moors unknown to the English.

Who acts: ship, contrary winds, Moors · What happens: have, beat, drive, inhabit · To what, where: cat, board, ship, sea, contrary winds, part

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 (ship, contrary winds, Moors), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ship	det
2	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 beaten	nsubj:pass
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ship	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 board	case
8	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 beaten	aux:pass
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 beaten	amod
11	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 sea	case
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 beaten	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 last	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 last	cc
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 last	case
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 beaten	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 winds	punct
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 winds	case
20	contrary	contrary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 winds	amod
21	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 beaten	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 driven	punct
23	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 winds	acl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 part	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 part	det
26	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 driven	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 coast	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 coast	det
29	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 part	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Barbary	case
31	Barbary	Barbary	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 coast	nmod
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 inhabited	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 inhabited	aux:pass
34	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 part	acl:relcl
35	by	by	ADP	_	36 Moors	case
36	Moors	moor	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 inhabited	obl
37	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Moors	amod
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 English	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 English	det
40	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 unknown	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 beaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	the ship	the cat	board	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient
2	beat	past · passive	contrary winds	the ship	sea	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme
3	drive	participle		contrary winds not said here	a part of the coast of Barbary	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	inhabit	past · passive	Moors	a part of the coast of Barbary		tree rules

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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