The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 65
But he was a powerful swimmer, and struggled hard to reach the shore.
Who acts: couple, powerful swimmer · What happens: be, struggle, reach · To what, where: powerful swimmer, shore
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, powerful swimmer), 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 | _ | 6 swimmer | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 swimmer | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 swimmer | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 swimmer | det |
| 5 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 swimmer | amod |
| 6 | swimmer | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 struggled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 struggled | cc |
| 9 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 swimmer | acl:relcl |
| 10 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 struggled | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 reach | mark |
| 12 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hard | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shore | det |
| 14 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reach | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 swimmer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | couple | a powerful swimmer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | struggle | past | a powerful swimmer not said here | hard property | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | reach | to-infinitive | a powerful swimmer not said here | the shore | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shore=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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