The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 75
He got down to the shore without meeting anyone, and there he got into a boat, and pushed off from land.
Who acts: remainder · What happens: get down, meet, get, push off · To what, where: anyone, boat
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (remainder), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 got | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 shore | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shore | det |
| 6 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 8 meeting | mark |
| 8 | meeting | meet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 got | advcl |
| 9 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 meeting | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 got | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 got | expl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 got | nsubj |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | parataxis |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 boat | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 boat | det |
| 17 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pushed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pushed | cc |
| 20 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 got | conj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 pushed | compound:prt |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 land | case |
| 23 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pushed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get down | past | remainder | to the shore result; down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to shore=Result | ||||
| 2 | meet | gerund | remainder not said here | anyone | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | get | past | remainder | a boat; there | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into boat=Destination | ||||
| 4 | push off | participle | remainder not said here | from land | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from land=Co-Patient |
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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