The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 12

Six of the crew, of whom I was one, letting down the boat, got clear of the ship, and we rowed about three leagues, till we could work no longer.

Who acts: I, we · What happens: be, let down, get, row, work · To what, where: one, boat, Six, three leagues

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 (I, we), 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	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 got	obl
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 crew	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crew	det
4	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 got	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 whom	case
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 one	obl
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 one	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 one	cop
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 crew	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 letting	punct
12	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 one	advcl
13	down	down	ADP	_	15 boat	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boat	det
15	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 letting	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 crew	punct
17	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 got	xcomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 ship	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ship	det
21	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 clear	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 rowed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 rowed	cc
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 rowed	nsubj
25	rowed	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 got	conj
26	about	about	ADV	_	27 three	advmod
27	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 leagues	nummod
28	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 rowed	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 work	punct
30	till	till	SCONJ	_	33 work	mark
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 work	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 work	aux
33	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 rowed	conj
34	no	no	ADV	_	35 longer	advmod
35	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 work	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	I	one	of the crew	tree rules
2	let down	gerund	I not said here	the boat		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme
3	get	past		Six	of the crew; clear property	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme of crew=Destination
4	row	past	we	three leagues		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent league=Theme
5	work	could	we		long property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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