The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 67
And when the vessel started a high wind arose, and blew him straight to the harbour where the notice was set.
Who acts: vessel · What happens: start, arise, blow, set · To what, where: high wind, head, harbour, notice
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vessel), 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 | _ | 9 arose | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 started | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 vessel | det |
| 4 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 started | nsubj |
| 5 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 arose | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wind | det |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wind | amod |
| 8 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 started | obj |
| 9 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 blew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 blew | cc |
| 12 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 arose | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 blew | obj |
| 14 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 17 harbour | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 harbour | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 harbour | det |
| 17 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blew | obl |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 set | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 notice | det |
| 20 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 set | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 set | aux:pass |
| 22 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 harbour | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | the vessel | a high wind | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | arise | past | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | blow | past | head | the harbour | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to harbour=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | set | past · passive | the notice | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=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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