The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 20
Being something of a swimmer, he at last made up his mind to kick the bottom out of the barrel, and having done so he was able to get on shore, for the rocks by the sea were smooth and level; but overhead there were high cliffs.
Who acts: Prince, rocks · What happens: be, make up, kick, do, get, mind · To what, where: something, bottom, barrel, shore, high cliffs
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, rocks), 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 something | cop |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 swimmer | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 swimmer | det |
| 5 | swimmer | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 something | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mind | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 mind | nsubj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 mind | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mind | amod |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 mind | amod |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 made | compound:prt |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mind | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 something | appos |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 kick | mark |
| 15 | kick | kick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 mind | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bottom | det |
| 17 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kick | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 barrel | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 barrel | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 barrel | det |
| 21 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kick | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 done | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 done | cc |
| 24 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 done | aux |
| 25 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 kick | advcl |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 able | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 able | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 able | cop |
| 29 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 done | advcl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 get | mark |
| 31 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 able | xcomp |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 shore | case |
| 33 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 get | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 rocks | punct |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 rocks | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 rocks | det |
| 37 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 smooth | nsubj |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 sea | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 sea | det |
| 40 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 rocks | nmod |
| 41 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 smooth | cop |
| 42 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 done | parataxis |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 level | cc |
| 44 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 smooth | conj |
| 45 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 51 cliffs | punct |
| 46 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 49 were | cc |
| 47 | overhead | overhead | ADV | _ | 49 were | advmod |
| 48 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 49 were | expl |
| 49 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 cliffs | cop |
| 50 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 cliffs | amod |
| 51 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 something | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 something | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | gerund | something | of a swimmer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make up | participle | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | kick | to-infinitive | the bottom | the barrel | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bottom=Patient out barrel=Location | ||||
| 4 | do | gerund · perfect | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | past | Prince | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | get | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | shore | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on shore=Source | ||||
| 7 | is | past | the rocks by the sea | smooth property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is a | past | high cliffs | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | mind | Prince | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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