The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 2
When they had sailed thus a long, long way, the ship stopped short in the middle of the sea.
Who acts: water, ship · What happens: sail, stop · To what, where: long long way, middle
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, ship), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 sailed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sailed | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sailed | aux |
| 4 | sailed | sail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 sailed | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 way | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 long | punct |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 way | amod |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sailed | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stopped | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ship | det |
| 13 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stopped | nsubj |
| 14 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 way | acl:relcl |
| 15 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stopped | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 middle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 middle | det |
| 18 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stopped | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 sea | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sea | det |
| 21 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 middle | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past · perfect | water | a long long way | thus property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | stop | past | the ship | a long long way not said here | the middle of the sea | short property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality way=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 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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