The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 31

So he went on with winged feet till he came to the shores of a great lake, with a lovely island in the middle of it; while on the bank of the lake was a canoe of glittering stone, and in the canoe were two shining paddles.

Who acts: thought, canoe, two shining paddles · What happens: go on, wing, come, be, glitter, shine · To what, where: shores, canoe, bank, stone

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, canoe, two shining paddles), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 went	compound:prt
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 feet	case
6	winged	wing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 feet	amod
7	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 shores	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shores	det
13	shores	shore	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 lake	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lake	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lake	amod
17	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shores	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 island	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 island	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 island	det
21	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 island	amod
22	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 middle	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 middle	det
25	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 island	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 middle	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 canoe	punct
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	38 canoe	mark
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 bank	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bank	det
32	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 canoe	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 lake	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 lake	det
35	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bank	nmod
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 canoe	cop
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 canoe	det
38	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
39	of	of	SCONJ	_	40 glittering	mark
40	glittering	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 canoe	acl
41	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 glittering	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 were	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 were	cc
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 canoe	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 canoe	det
46	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 were	obl
47	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
48	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 paddles	nummod
49	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 paddles	amod
50	paddles	paddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 were	nsubj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go on	past	thought			with winged feet	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wing	participle					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	thought		the shores of a great lake	with a lovely island in the middle of middle	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shore=Initial_Location
4	is a	past		a canoe	the bank of the lake		tree rules
5	glitter	gerund	a canoe not said here	stone			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
6	be	past	two shining paddles		the canoe		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in canoe=Location
7	shine	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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