The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 40

When the ship was finished the launch took place, and everything seemed going smoothly when a gale sprang up, and the vessel was dashed to pieces on the rocks.

Who acts: launch, everything, gale · What happens: finish, take, seem, go, spring up, dash · To what, where: ship, place, vessel

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (launch, everything, gale), 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	5 finished	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ship	det
3	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finished	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 finished	aux:pass
5	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 took	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 launch	det
7	launch	launch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	nsubj
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seemed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seemed	cc
12	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 seemed	nsubj
13	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 took	conj
14	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 seemed	xcomp
15	smoothly	smoothly	ADV	_	14 going	advmod
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 sprang	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 gale	det
18	gale	gale	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sprang	nsubj
19	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 going	advcl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 sprang	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dashed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 dashed	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 vessel	det
24	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dashed	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 dashed	aux:pass
26	dashed	dash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 took	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 pieces	case
28	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 dashed	obl
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 rocks	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 rocks	det
31	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 pieces	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	finish	past · passive		the ship		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
2	take	past	the launch	place		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
3	seem	past	everything			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	go	gerund	everything not said here		smoothly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	spring up	past	a gale			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	dash	past · passive		the vessel	to pieces on the rocks result	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to piece=Result

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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