The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 34

And the young man and the maiden shrank with fear, for down in the depths of the water they saw the bones of those who had died before, and in the waves themselves men and women were struggling, and but few passed over.

Who acts: paddles, waves · What happens: see, die, struggle, pass over · To what, where: bones, young man

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, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 man	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shrank	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shrank	det
7	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shrank	amod
8	shrank	shrank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 fear	case
10	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shrank	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 depths	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	16 depths	case
13	down	down	ADV	_	16 depths	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 depths	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 depths	det
16	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 man	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 water	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 water	det
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 depths	nmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 water	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bones	det
23	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 saw	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 those	case
25	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 bones	nmod
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 died	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 died	aux
28	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 those	acl:relcl
29	before	before	ADV	_	28 died	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 struggling	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 struggling	cc
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 waves	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 waves	det
34	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 struggling	nsubj
35	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	34 waves	nmod:unmarked
36	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 struggling	nsubj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 women	cc
38	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 men	conj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 struggling	aux
40	struggling	struggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 man	acl:relcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 passed	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 passed	cc
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 passed	cc
44	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 passed	amod
45	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 struggling	conj
46	over	over	ADP	_	45 passed	compound:prt
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	paddles = paddle	the bones of those		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Stimulus
2	die	past · perfect			before property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	struggle	past · progressive	the waves paddles	the young man and the maiden shrank with fear and the depths of the water not said here		tree rules
4	pass over	participle	the waves paddles not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «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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