The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 90

He had scarcely lost sight of the land when a violent storm arose, and after several hours of beating about, the vessel was driven on to some rocks, on which it dashed itself to bits.

Who acts: sight, violent storm, vessel · What happens: lose, arise, beat about, drive, dash, sight · To what, where: sight, vessel, rocks, land

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (sight, violent storm, vessel), 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	4 lost	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux
3	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	4 lost	advmod
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 land	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 land	det
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sight	nmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 arose	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 storm	det
11	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 storm	amod
12	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 arose	nsubj
13	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 beating	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 beating	cc
16	after	after	ADP	_	18 hours	case
17	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hours	amod
18	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 beating	obl
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 beating	mark
20	beating	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 arose	ccomp
21	about	about	ADV	_	20 beating	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 driven	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 vessel	det
24	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 driven	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 driven	aux:pass
26	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 beating	parataxis
27	on	on	ADP	_	30 rocks	case
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 rocks	case
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 rocks	det
30	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 driven	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 dashed	punct
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 which	case
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 dashed	obl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 dashed	nsubj
35	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 driven	conj
36	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 dashed	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 bits	case
38	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 dashed	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	sight	sight of the land			scarcely property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality
2	arise	past	a violent storm					tree rules
3	beat about	gerund	a violent storm not said here			hour	about property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	drive	past · passive		the vessel	some rocks			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on rock=Destination
5	dash	past	vessel	vessel			to bits result	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP ADJP PP.result»: agent=Instrument itself=Patient to bit=Result
6	sight			the land				nom sight «cognition 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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