The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 43

After this the Giant accompanied him down to the sea, where he saw a stone boat which was just big enough to hold the two of them and the Dog.

Who acts: Giant, Dog, stone boat · What happens: accompany down, see, be, hold · To what, where: Dog, sea, stone boat, two

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 (Giant, Dog, stone boat), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 accompanied	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Giant	det
4	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 accompanied	nsubj
5	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 accompanied	obj
7	down	down	ADP	_	5 accompanied	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 accompanied	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 saw	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 accompanied	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 boat	det
16	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 boat	compound
17	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obj
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 big	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 big	cop
20	just	just	ADV	_	21 big	advmod
21	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 boat	acl:relcl
22	enough	enough	ADV	_	21 big	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 hold	mark
24	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 big	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 two	det
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 hold	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 two	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Dog	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Dog	det
31	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 them	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 accompanied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accompany down	past	the Giant	Dog	the sea	after this		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to sea=Destination
2	see	past	Dog	a stone boat				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boat=Stimulus
3	is	past	a stone boat				big, enough property	tree rules
4	hold	to-infinitive	a stone boat not said here	the two of signs				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=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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