The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 80

But he then felt something lay hold of the boat, and drag it straight in to shore, for all that he sat and struggled with the oars.

Who acts: remainder · What happens: feel, drag, sit, struggle, hold · To what, where: something, boat, shore

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 felt	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 felt	advmod
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 felt	obj
6	lay	lay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hold	amod
7	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 something	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 boat	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boat	det
10	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drag	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 drag	cc
13	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 felt	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 drag	obj
15	straight	straight	ADV	_	16 in	advmod
16	in	in	ADV	_	13 drag	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 shore	case
18	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drag	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sat	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 sat	mark
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 sat	det:predet
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 sat	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sat	nsubj
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 drag	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 struggled	cc
26	struggled	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sat	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 oars	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 oars	det
29	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 struggled	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	remainder	something		then		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
2	drag	infinitive	remainder not said here	boat	shore			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to shore=Destination
3	sit	past	remainder					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	struggle	past	remainder not said here				with the oars	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with oar=Co-Agent
5	hold			the boat				nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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