The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 13
We therefore trusted ourselves to the mercy of the waves; and in about half an hour the boat was upset by a sudden squall.
Who acts: We, sudden squall · What happens: trust, upset · To what, where: ourselves, mercy, boat
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 (We, sudden squall), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 trusted | nsubj |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 trusted | advmod |
| 3 | trusted | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 trusted | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 mercy | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mercy | det |
| 7 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trusted | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 waves | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 waves | det |
| 10 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mercy | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 upset | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 upset | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hour | case |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 half | advmod |
| 15 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 17 hour | det:predet |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hour | det |
| 17 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 upset | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 boat | det |
| 19 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 upset | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 upset | aux:pass |
| 21 | upset | upset | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 trusted | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 squall | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 squall | det |
| 24 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 squall | amod |
| 25 | squall | squall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 upset | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trusted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | past | We | ourselves | the mercy of the waves | therefore property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ourselves=Theme to mercy=Recipient | ||
| 2 | upset | past · passive | a sudden squall | the boat | hour | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
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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