The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 50
And in a moment the ship went off so fast that the yellow foam rose up all round about it.
Who acts: ship, yellow foam · What happens: go off, rise up
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 (ship, yellow foam), 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 | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ship | det |
| 6 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 went | compound:prt |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 fast | advmod |
| 10 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 went | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 rose | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 foam | det |
| 13 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 foam | amod |
| 14 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rose | nsubj |
| 15 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | advcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 rose | compound:prt |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 round | advmod |
| 18 | round | round | ADV | _ | 15 rose | advmod |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 rose | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | past | the ship | moment | fast property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | rise up | past | the yellow foam | about ship; round property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about it=Location |
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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