The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 8
In this way he came right out into the sea, and swam further and further out.
Who acts: troll · What happens: come, swim out · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (troll), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | right | right | ADV | _ | 7 out | advmod |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 swam | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 swam | cc |
| 13 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 14 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 swam | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 further | cc |
| 16 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 further | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 swam | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | troll | this way | into the sea; out property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into sea=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | swim out | past | troll not said here | far property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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