The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 19

How many days he spent thus he could not tell, but at last he felt that the barrel was knocking against rocks, at which he was a little cheered, thinking it was probably land and not merely a reef in the sea.

Who acts: many days, Prince, barrel · What happens: spend, not tell, feel, knock, cheer, think · To what, where: last, rocks, Prince, land · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (many days, 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 days	amod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spent	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spent	nsubj
5	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	thus	thus	ADV	_	5 spent	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tell	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 tell	advmod
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 spent	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 felt	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 felt	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 felt	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 felt	nsubj
16	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spent	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 knocking	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 barrel	det
19	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 knocking	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 knocking	aux
21	knocking	knock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 felt	advcl
22	against	against	ADP	_	23 rocks	case
23	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 knocking	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cheered	punct
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 cheered	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 cheered	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 cheered	aux:pass
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 little	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 cheered	obl:unmarked
31	cheered	cheer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 felt	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 thinking	punct
33	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 cheered	advcl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 land	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 land	cop
36	probably	probably	ADV	_	37 land	advmod
37	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 thinking	ccomp
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 reef	cc
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 reef	advmod
40	merely	merely	ADV	_	42 reef	advmod
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 reef	det
42	reef	reef	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 land	conj
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 sea	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 sea	det
45	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 reef	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spend	past	many days			thus property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not tell speech: assert	could	Prince				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	feel	past	Prince		last		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location
4	knock	past · progressive	the barrel		rocks		vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against rock=Location
5	cheer	past · passive		Prince		a little obl:unmarked	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
6	think speech: other	gerund					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past	barrel	land and a reef in the sea		probably property	tree rules

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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