The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 94
The princes had to hold fast by the seats to keep from being thrown out of the boat.
Who acts: princes · What happens: have, hold, keep, throw · To what, where: boat
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 (princes), 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 princes | det |
| 2 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 hold | mark |
| 5 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 hold | advmod |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 seats | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 seats | det |
| 9 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hold | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 keep | mark |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hold | advcl |
| 12 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 14 thrown | mark |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 thrown | aux:pass |
| 14 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 keep | xcomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 boat | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 boat | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 boat | det |
| 18 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thrown | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the princes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hold | to-infinitive | the princes not said here | by the seats; fast property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by seat=Location | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | the princes not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | throw | gerund · passive | the princes not said here | the boat | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: out boat=Initial_Location |
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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