The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 63

But one day as he was making for a little bay between some rocks, there arose a fierce whirlwind, which shattered his boat to pieces, and she was sucked under by the waves.

Who acts: couple, fierce whirlwind, waves · What happens: make, arise, shatter, suck · To what, where: one day, fierce whirlwind, boat, house

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (couple, fierce whirlwind, waves), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	17 arose	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 arose	obl:unmarked
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 making	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 making	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 making	aux
7	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 day	acl
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 bay	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bay	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bay	amod
11	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 making	obl
12	between	between	ADP	_	14 rocks	case
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 rocks	det
14	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bay	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 arose	expl
17	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 whirlwind	det
19	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 whirlwind	amod
20	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 arose	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 shattered	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 shattered	nsubj
23	shattered	shatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 whirlwind	acl:relcl
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 boat	nmod:poss
25	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shattered	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 pieces	case
27	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 shattered	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sucked	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sucked	cc
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sucked	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sucked	aux:pass
32	sucked	suck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 arose	conj
33	under	under	ADP	_	36 waves	case
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 waves	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 waves	det
36	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sucked	obl:agent
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 arose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · progressive	couple	one day not said here			for a little bay between some rocks	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent day=Product for bay=Asset
2	arise	past		a fierce whirlwind	there	day		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whirlwind=Theme
3	shatter	past	a fierce whirlwind	couple's boat			to pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent boat=Patient to piece=Result
4	suck	past · passive	the waves	house				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent subject=Source

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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