The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 9

But in our passage to the East Indies we were driven by a violent storm to the north-west of Van Diemen’s Land.

Who acts: violent storm, our · What happens: drive, pass · To what, where: we, passage

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 (violent storm, our), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 driven	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 passage	case
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 passage	nmod:poss
4	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 driven	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 Indies	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Indies	det
7	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Indies	compound
8	Indies	indy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 passage	nmod
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 driven	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 driven	aux:pass
11	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 storm	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 storm	det
14	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 storm	amod
15	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 driven	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	20 west	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 west	det
18	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 west	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 north	punct
20	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 storm	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	25 Land	case
22	Van	Van	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Land	nmod:poss
23	Diemen	Diemen	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Van	flat
24	’s	's	PART	_	22 Van	case
25	Land	Land	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 west	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 driven	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past · passive	a violent storm to the north west of Van's Land	we		our passage to the East Indies			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in passage=Destination
2	pass		our					to the East Indies	nom passage «act intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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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