The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 14

What became of my companions in the boat, or those who escaped on the rock or were left in the vessel, I cannot tell; but I conclude they were all lost.

Who acts: I · What happens: become, escape, leave, not tell, conclude, lose · To what, where: boat, rock, vessel, companions · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 companions	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 companions	nmod:poss
5	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 became	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 boat	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boat	det
8	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 those	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 those	cc
11	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 became	xcomp
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 escaped	nsubj
13	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 those	acl:relcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 rock	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rock	det
16	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 escaped	obl
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 left	cc
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 left	aux:pass
19	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 escaped	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 vessel	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 vessel	det
22	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 left	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 those	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 tell	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 tell	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 tell	advmod
27	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 those	acl:relcl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 conclude	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 conclude	cc
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 conclude	nsubj
31	conclude	conclude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 became	conj
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 lost	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 lost	aux:pass
34	all	all	ADV	_	35 lost	advmod
35	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 conclude	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past				in the boat result; of my companions	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in boat=Result
2	escape	past			the rock		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave	past · passive				in the vessel result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: in vessel=Result
4	not tell speech: assert	can	I				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	conclude	present	I				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	lose	past · passive		companions = companion		all property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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