The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 91

The Prince was fortunate enough to be able to lay hold of a floating spar, and contrived to keep himself afloat; and, after a long struggle with the winds and waves, he was cast upon a strange island.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: be, lay, float, contrive, keep, cast · To what, where: hold, sight, strange island, floating spar

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 (Prince), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fortunate	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fortunate	cop
4	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 fortunate	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	8 able	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 able	cop
8	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fortunate	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 lay	mark
10	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 able	xcomp
11	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lay	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 spar	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 spar	det
14	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 spar	amod
15	spar	spar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hold	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 contrived	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 contrived	cc
18	contrived	contrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fortunate	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 keep	mark
20	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 contrived	xcomp
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 keep	obj
22	afloat	afloat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 keep	xcomp
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 cast	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 cast	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 and	punct
26	after	after	ADP	_	29 struggle	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 struggle	det
28	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 struggle	amod
29	struggle	struggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 cast	obl
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 winds	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 winds	det
32	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 struggle	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 waves	cc
34	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 winds	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 struggle	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 cast	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 cast	aux:pass
38	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fortunate	conj
39	upon	upon	ADP	_	42 island	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 island	det
41	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 island	amod
42	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 cast	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fortunate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Prince				enough, fortunate property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here				able property	tree rules
3	lay	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here	hold of a floating spar				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
4	float	gerund						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	contrive	past	the Prince not said here					tree rules
6	keep	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here	sight			afloat property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
7	cast	past · passive		sight	a strange island	after a long struggle with the winds and waves		vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme upon island=Destination
8	hold			a floating spar				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 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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