The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 92
It was beautiful weather when they set out, but as soon as they had got some distance from the shore there arose a terrific storm.
Who acts: boat, sons, distance · What happens: be, set out, get, arise · To what, where: beautiful weather, terrific storm
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boat, sons, distance), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 weather | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 weather | cop |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 weather | amod |
| 4 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 set | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 set | nsubj |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 weather | acl:relcl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 set | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 got | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 got | cc |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 soon | advmod |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 got | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 got | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 got | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 got | aux |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 weather | parataxis |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 distance | det |
| 18 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 arose | nsubj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 shore | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 shore | det |
| 21 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 distance | nmod |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 shore | advmod |
| 23 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 got | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 storm | det |
| 25 | terrific | terrific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 storm | amod |
| 26 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 arose | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 weather | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | boat | beautiful weather | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set out | past | sons = son | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | past · perfect | sons = son | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | arise | past | some distance from the shore | a terrific storm | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location storm=Theme |
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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