The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 61
When they had sailed for some time longer, the brother once more pointed over the sea.
Who acts: brother · What happens: sail
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sailed | obl |
| 8 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 sailed | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brother | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brother | det |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sailed | obl:agent |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 pointed | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 pointed | advmod |
| 14 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 brother | amod |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pointed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past · perfect | brother | time | long property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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