The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 108

It blew down woods and houses, and when they were above the sea the ships were wrecked by hundreds.

Who acts: storm, brothers, hundreds · What happens: blow down, be, wreck · To what, where: woods, sea

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storm, brothers, hundreds), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blew	nsubj
2	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 blew	compound:prt
4	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 blew	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 houses	cc
6	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 woods	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wrecked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wrecked	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 sea	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sea	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sea	cop
12	above	above	ADP	_	14 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wrecked	nsubj:pass
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ships	det
16	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wrecked	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wrecked	aux:pass
18	wrecked	wreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 blew	conj
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 hundreds	case
20	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wrecked	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	blow down	past	storm	woods and houses		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent wood=Patient
2	is	past	brothers = brother		the sea	tree rules
3	wreck	past · passive	hundreds	the sea		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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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