The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 109

And thus they tore on and on, and a long time went by, and then yet more time passed, and still they were above the sea, and the North Wind grew tired, and more tired, and at last so utterly weary that he was scarcely able to blow any longer, and he sank and sank, lower and lower, until at last he went so low that the waves dashed against the heels of the poor girl he was carrying.

Who acts: ships, long time, North Wind, Wind, waves · What happens: tore, go by, pass, be, grow, blow · To what, where: sea, last, heels, poor girl

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 (ships, long time, North Wind, Wind), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 tore	cc
2	thus	thus	ADV	_	4 tore	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tore	nsubj
4	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 passed	advcl
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 tore	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 on	cc
7	on	on	ADV	_	5 on	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tore	conj
14	by	by	ADP	_	13 went	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 passed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 passed	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 more	advmod
18	yet	yet	ADV	_	19 more	advmod
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 time	amod
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 passed	obl:unmarked
21	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sea	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sea	cc
24	still	still	ADV	_	29 sea	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sea	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sea	cop
27	above	above	ADP	_	29 sea	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sea	det
29	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 passed	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 grew	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 grew	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Wind	det
33	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Wind	compound
34	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 grew	nsubj
35	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 passed	conj
36	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 grew	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 tired	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 tired	cc
39	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	40 tired	advmod
40	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 grew	advcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 weary	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 weary	cc
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 last	case
44	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 weary	obl
45	so	so	ADV	_	47 weary	advmod
46	utterly	utterly	ADV	_	47 weary	advmod
47	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 grew	conj
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 able	mark
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 able	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 able	cop
51	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	52 able	advmod
52	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 weary	advcl
53	to	to	PART	_	54 blow	mark
54	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 able	xcomp
55	any	any	ADV	_	56 longer	advmod
56	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	54 blow	advmod
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 sank	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 sank	cc
59	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 sank	nsubj
60	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 passed	parataxis
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 sank	cc
62	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 sank	conj
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 lower	punct
64	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	62 sank	xcomp
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 lower	cc
66	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	64 lower	conj
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 went	punct
68	until	until	SCONJ	_	72 went	mark
69	at	at	ADP	_	70 last	case
70	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 went	obl
71	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	72 went	nsubj
72	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 sank	conj
73	so	so	ADV	_	74 low	advmod
74	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 went	xcomp
75	that	that	SCONJ	_	78 dashed	mark
76	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	77 waves	det
77	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	78 dashed	nsubj
78	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	74 low	advcl
79	against	against	ADP	_	81 heels	case
80	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	81 heels	det
81	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	78 dashed	obl
82	of	of	ADP	_	85 girl	case
83	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	85 girl	det
84	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	85 girl	amod
85	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	81 heels	nmod
86	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	88 carrying	nsubj
87	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	88 carrying	aux
88	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	85 girl	acl:relcl
89	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore	past	ships = ship				thus property	tree rules
2	go by	past	a long time					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pass	participle				time		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	ships = ship		the sea	still		tree rules
5	grow	past	the North Wind				tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	past	Wind				able, scarcely property	tree rules
7	blow	to-infinitive	Wind not said here				long property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
8	sink	past	Wind					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	sink	past	Wind not said here				low property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
10	go	past	Wind		last		low property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location
11	dash	past	the waves		the heels of the poor girl			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against heel=Trajectory
12	carry	past · progressive	Wind	the poor girl not said here				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme

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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