The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 11

On the 5th of November, the weather being very hazy, the seamen spied a rock within 120 yards of the ship; but the wind was so strong that we were driven straight upon it, and immediately split.

Who acts: weather, seamen, wind · What happens: be, spy, drive, split · To what, where: 5th, rock, we, wind

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weather, seamen, 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 5th	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 5th	det
3	5th	5th	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	11 hazy	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 November	case
5	November	November	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 5th	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 5th	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 weather	det
8	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hazy	nsubj
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 hazy	cop
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 hazy	advmod
11	hazy	hazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 spied	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 seamen	det
14	seamen	seaman	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 spied	nsubj
15	spied	spy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hazy	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 rock	det
17	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spied	obj
18	within	within	ADP	_	20 yards	case
19	120	120	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 yards	nummod
20	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 spied	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 ship	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ship	det
23	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 yards	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 strong	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 strong	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wind	det
27	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 strong	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 strong	cop
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 strong	advmod
30	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hazy	conj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 driven	mark
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 driven	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 driven	aux:pass
34	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 strong	advcl
35	straight	straight	ADV	_	37 it	advmod
36	upon	upon	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 driven	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 split	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 split	cc
40	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	41 split	advmod
41	split	split	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 hazy	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 hazy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	the weather		the 5th of November	hazy property	tree rules
2	spy	past	the seamen	a rock		within 120 yards of the ship	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rock=Stimulus
3	is	past	the wind			strong property	tree rules
4	drive	past · passive		we	wind		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon it=Destination
5	split	infinitive	the weather not said here			immediately property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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