The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 71

But scarcely was he seated firmly on the shell, when the turtle proposed that they should not return to the shore at once, but go under the sea, and look at some of the wonders that lay hidden there.

Who acts: turtle, Uraschimataro, wonders · What happens: seat, propose, not return, go, look, lay · To what, where: friend, shell, sea

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 (turtle, Uraschimataro, wonders), 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	_	5 seated	cc
2	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	5 seated	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seated	aux:pass
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seated	nsubj
5	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	5 seated	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 shell	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shell	det
9	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seated	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 proposed	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 proposed	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 turtle	det
13	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 proposed	nsubj
14	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seated	parataxis
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 return	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 return	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 return	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 return	advmod
19	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 proposed	ccomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 shore	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 shore	det
22	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 return	obl
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 once	case
24	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 return	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 go	cc
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 proposed	conj
28	under	under	ADP	_	30 sea	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sea	det
30	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 go	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 look	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 look	cc
33	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 go	parataxis
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 some	case
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 look	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 wonders	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 wonders	det
38	wonders	wonder	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 some	nmod
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 lay	nsubj
40	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 wonders	acl:relcl
41	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 lay	xcomp
42	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 hidden	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seat	past · passive		friend	the shell	firmly, scarcely property	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value
2	propose	past	the turtle				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not return	should	Uraschimataro			to the shore result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to shore=Result
4	go	infinitive	the turtle not said here		the sea		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under sea=Location
5	look	infinitive				at some	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at some=Theme
6	lay	present	the wonders				tree rules
7	hide	participle	the wonders not said here		there		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=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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