The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 148

Fortunately the points of his toes just touched the bottom, and he managed to get ashore.

Who acts: points, Irishman · What happens: touch, manage, get, point · To what, where: bottom, toes

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (points, Irishman), 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	Fortunately	fortunately	ADV	_	8 touched	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 points	det
3	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 touched	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 toes	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 toes	nmod:poss
6	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 points	nmod
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 touched	advmod
8	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bottom	det
10	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 touched	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 managed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 managed	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 managed	nsubj
14	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 touched	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 get	mark
16	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 managed	xcomp
17	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	16 get	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 touched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	touch	past	the points of Irishman's toes	the bottom	fortunately property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bottom=Co-Theme
2	manage	past	Irishman			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get	to-infinitive	Irishman not said here		ashore property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	point			Irishman's toes		nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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