The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 99

Then she rowed away in her dough-trough, while the storm howled still louder than before, and the water dashed over their boat until it was almost sinking.

Who acts: mother, storm, water · What happens: row away, howl, dash, sink · To what, where: dough trough, 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 (mother, storm, water), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 rowed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rowed	nsubj
3	rowed	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 rowed	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 trough	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 trough	nmod:poss
7	dough	dough	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trough	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 dough	punct
9	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rowed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 howled	punct
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 howled	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 storm	det
13	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 howled	nsubj
14	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rowed	conj
15	still	still	ADV	_	14 howled	advmod
16	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 howled	xcomp
17	than	than	ADP	_	18 before	case
18	before	before	ADV	_	16 louder	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dashed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 dashed	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 water	det
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dashed	nsubj
23	dashed	dash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 rowed	conj
24	over	over	ADP	_	26 boat	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 boat	nmod:poss
26	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dashed	obl
27	until	until	SCONJ	_	31 sinking	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sinking	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sinking	aux
30	almost	almost	ADV	_	31 sinking	advmod
31	sinking	sink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 dashed	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	row away	past	mother	mother's dough trough	then	away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	howl	past	the storm		still	loud property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	dash	participle	the water	sons's boat			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over boat=Trajectory
4	sink	past · progressive	water			almost property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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