The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 93

The oars went overboard at once, and the little boat was tossed about on the rolling billows like a nut-shell.

Who acts: oars · What happens: go, toss · To what, where: little boat, rolling billows

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 (oars), 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 oars	det
2	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	overboard	overboard	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tossed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tossed	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boat	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boat	amod
11	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tossed	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tossed	aux:pass
13	tossed	toss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	conj
14	about	about	ADV	_	13 tossed	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 billows	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 billows	det
17	rolling	rolling	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 billows	compound
18	billows	billow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tossed	obl
19	like	like	ADP	_	23 shell	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 shell	det
21	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shell	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 nut	punct
23	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 billows	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the oars					overboard property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
2	toss	past · passive		the little boat		the rolling billows like a nut shell		about property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme on billow=Destination

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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