The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 2
I pulled off my shoes and stockings, and wading two or three hundred yards, I plainly saw it to be a real boat, which I supposed might by some tempest have been driven from a ship.
Who acts: I · What happens: pull off, wade, see, be, suppose, drive · To what, where: shoes, hundred yards, arrival, real boat, tempest, ship · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter V. 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 | 2 pulled | nsubj |
| 2 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 pulled | compound:prt |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pulled | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stockings | cc |
| 7 | stockings | stocking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shoes | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wading | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wading | cc |
| 10 | wading | wade | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 pulled | advcl |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 hundred | compound |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 three | cc |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 two | conj |
| 14 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 yards | nummod |
| 15 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wading | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 19 saw | advmod |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pulled | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 boat | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 boat | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 boat | det |
| 24 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 boat | amod |
| 25 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 supposed | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 supposed | obj |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 supposed | nsubj |
| 29 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 boat | conj |
| 30 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 supposed | aux |
| 31 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 36 driven | mark |
| 32 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 tempest | det |
| 33 | tempest | tempest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 driven | aux |
| 35 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 driven | aux:pass |
| 36 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 supposed | ccomp |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 ship | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 ship | det |
| 39 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 driven | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull off | past | I | my shoes and stockings | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | wade | gerund | I not said here | hundred yards | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme yard=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | see | past | I | arrival | plainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | a real boat | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | suppose | might | I | a real boat | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent which=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | drive | present · perfect · passive | some tempest | a ship | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme from ship=Trajectory |
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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