The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 66

Then he saw a large turtle coming towards him, and above the howling of the storm he heard what it said: ‘I am the turtle whose life you once saved.

Who acts: couple, large turtle, storm, I, you · What happens: see, come, hear, say, be, save · To what, where: large turtle, howling, turtle, life · Speech: someone speaks here

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, large turtle, storm, I), 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 saw	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 turtle	det
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 turtle	amod
6	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
7	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 turtle	acl
8	towards	towards	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 coming	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 heard	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 heard	cc
12	above	above	ADP	_	14 howling	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 howling	det
14	howling	howling	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heard	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 storm	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 storm	det
17	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 howling	nmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 heard	nsubj
19	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	parataxis
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 said	obj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 heard	conj
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 turtle	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 turtle	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 turtle	nsubj
26	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 turtle	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 turtle	det
28	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	ccomp
29	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	30 life	nmod:poss
30	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 turtle	conj
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 saved	nsubj
32	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	33 saved	advmod
33	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 life	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	couple	a large turtle		then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer turtle=Stimulus
2	come	gerund	a large turtle not said here				towards couple	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_Location
3	hear	past	couple		the howling of the storm			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	past	storm					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
5	is a	present	I	the turtle and the turtle and the turtle's life's life				tree rules
6	save	past	you	the turtle and the turtle and life's life's life not said here			once property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
7	howl		the storm					nom howling «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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