The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 21
I then took off my spectacles, and after waiting about an hour, till the tide was a little fallen, I waded on to the royal port of Lilliput.
Who acts: I · What happens: take off, wait, fall, wade · To what, where: spectacles, tide, royal port
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 spectacles | nmod:poss |
| 6 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 waiting | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 waiting | cc |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 waiting | mark |
| 10 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | advcl |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 hour | advmod |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hour | det |
| 13 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 waiting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fallen | punct |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 fallen | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tide | det |
| 17 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fallen | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fallen | aux:pass |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 little | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fallen | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 waded | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 waded | nsubj |
| 24 | waded | wade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADV | _ | 24 waded | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 port | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 port | det |
| 28 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 port | amod |
| 29 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 waded | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Lilliput | case |
| 31 | Lilliput | Lilliput | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 port | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past | I | my spectacles | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spectacle=Theme | |||
| 2 | wait | gerund | I not said here | hour | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past · passive | the tide | a little obl:unmarked | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 4 | wade | past | I | the royal port of Lilliput | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to port=Destination |
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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