The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 61

They loosened their moorings, and made for the middle of the stream, and when they were at some distance from the bank, the hare took his oar, and struck such a heavy blow at the other boat, that it broke in two.

Who acts: boats, hare, oar · What happens: loosen, make, be, take, strike, break · To what, where: moorings, bank, oar, heavy blow, other boat, two

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boats, hare, oar), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 loosened	nsubj
2	loosened	loosen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 moorings	nmod:poss
4	moorings	mooring	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 loosened	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 made	cc
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 loosened	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 middle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 middle	det
10	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 stream	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stream	det
13	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 middle	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 distance	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 distance	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 distance	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 distance	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 distance	cop
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 distance	case
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 distance	det
21	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 bank	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bank	det
24	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 distance	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 took	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hare	det
27	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	nsubj
28	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 distance	conj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 oar	nmod:poss
30	oar	oar	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 struck	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 struck	cc
33	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 loosened	parataxis
34	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	37 blow	det:predet
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 blow	det
36	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 blow	amod
37	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 struck	obj
38	at	at	ADP	_	41 boat	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 boat	det
40	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 boat	amod
41	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 struck	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 broke	punct
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 broke	mark
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 broke	nsubj
45	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 struck	conj
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 two	case
47	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 broke	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 loosened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	loosen	past	boats = boat	boats's moorings			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mooring=Patient
2	make	participle	boats = boat not said here			for the middle of the stream	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for middle=Asset
3	is	past	boats = boat		the bank	at some distance	tree rules
4	take	past	the hare	hare's oar			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oar=Theme
5	strike	past		such heavy blow	the other boat		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Patient
6	break	past	oar		two		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in two=Location

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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