The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 33
But they could not touch each other, for between them rolled great waves, which looked as if they would sink the boats, yet never did.
Who acts: paddles, great waves · What happens: not touch, roll, look, sink, not do · To what, where: each, great waves, boats
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 (paddles, great waves), 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 | _ | 5 touch | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 touch | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 touch | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 touch | advmod |
| 5 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 5 touch | obj |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 each | fixed |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rolled | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 rolled | mark |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 rolled | obl |
| 12 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 touch | parataxis |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 waves | amod |
| 14 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rolled | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 waves | acl:relcl |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 sink | mark |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 sink | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sink | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 sink | aux |
| 22 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 looked | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 boats | det |
| 24 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sink | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 did | punct |
| 26 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 28 did | cc |
| 27 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 28 did | advmod |
| 28 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rolled | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not touch | could | paddles = paddle | each | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme each=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | roll | past | great waves | between paddles = paddle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent wave=Theme between they=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | look | past | great waves | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sink a condition, not said to happen | would | paddles = paddle | the boats | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boat=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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