The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 18
The Prince thought himself in a bad plight now, as he felt the barrel floating out from the land and tossing about on the waves.
Who acts: Prince, barrel · What happens: think, feel, float out, toss · To what, where: Prince, bad plight, barrel, land, waves
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, barrel), 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 | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 thought | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 plight | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 plight | det |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 plight | amod |
| 8 | plight | plight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | obl |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 plight | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 felt | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 felt | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 felt | nsubj |
| 13 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 barrel | det |
| 15 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 felt | obj |
| 16 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 felt | xcomp |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 floating | compound:prt |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 land | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 land | det |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 floating | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 tossing | cc |
| 22 | tossing | toss | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 floating | conj |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 tossing | advmod |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 waves | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 waves | det |
| 26 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 tossing | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Prince | Prince | a bad plight | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme | |||
| 2 | feel | past | Prince | the barrel | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | float out | gerund | the barrel not said here | the land | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from land=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | toss | gerund | the barrel not said here | the waves | about property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on wave=Destination |
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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