The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 69

And when the Prince came to the blue sea, he looked—there slept the Norka on a stone in the middle of the sea; and when it snored, the water was agitated for seven miles around.

Who acts: Prince, sea · What happens: come, look, sleep, snore, agitate · To what, where: blue sea, Norka, stone, water

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, sea), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 looked	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Prince	det
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 looked	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
8	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sea	amod
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	nsubj
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 slept	punct
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 slept	advmod
15	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 looked	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Norka	det
17	Norka	Norka	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 slept	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 stone	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 stone	det
20	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 slept	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 middle	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 middle	det
23	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stone	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 sea	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sea	det
26	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 middle	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 agitated	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 agitated	cc
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 snored	advmod
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 snored	nsubj
31	snored	snore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 agitated	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 snored	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 water	det
34	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 agitated	nsubj:pass
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 agitated	aux:pass
36	agitated	agitate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 looked	conj
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 miles	case
38	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 miles	nummod
39	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 agitated	obl
40	around	around	ADV	_	36 agitated	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Prince		the blue sea		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location
2	look	past	Prince				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	sleep	past	Prince not said here	the Norka	a stone in the middle of the sea; there		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent norka=Theme
4	snore	past	sea				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	agitate	past · passive		the water		for seven miles; around property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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