The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 72
The ship travelled on again, and some miles further on they saw a man drinking out of a stream till he had nearly drunk it dry.
Who acts: ship, miles, man · What happens: travel on, see, drink out, drink · To what, where: man, stream
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 (ship, miles, man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ship | det |
| 2 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 travelled | nsubj |
| 3 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 travelled | compound:prt |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 travelled | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 miles | det |
| 9 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | further | further | ADV | _ | 13 saw | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 13 saw | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 travelled | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 16 | drinking | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 man | acl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 stream | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 stream | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 stream | det |
| 20 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drinking | obl |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 drunk | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 drunk | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 drunk | aux |
| 24 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 25 drunk | advmod |
| 25 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 saw | ccomp |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 drunk | obj |
| 27 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 drunk | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel on | past | the ship | again | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | some miles | a man | further property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | drink out | gerund | a man not said here | a stream | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Patient | ||||
| 4 | drink | past · perfect · passive | man | dry, nearly property | tree rules |
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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