The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 12

They had sailed for several days, when the breeze suddenly fell, and there came a dead calm, at a time when they needed only one day’s voyage to reach home.

Who acts: King, breeze, one day · What happens: sail, fall, come, need, reach, voyage · To what, where: voyage

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, breeze, one day), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sailed	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sailed	aux
3	sailed	sail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 days	case
5	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sailed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fell	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 fell	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 breeze	det
10	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	nsubj
11	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	12 fell	advmod
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sailed	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 came	expl
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fell	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 calm	det
18	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 calm	amod
19	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 came	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 time	punct
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 time	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 time	det
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 needed	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 needed	nsubj
26	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 time	acl:relcl
27	only	only	ADV	_	28 one	advmod
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 day	nummod
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 voyage	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 day	case
31	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 needed	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 reach	mark
33	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 needed	advcl
34	home	home	ADV	_	33 reach	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sailed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	past · perfect	King			day		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	fall	past	the breeze				suddenly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	the breeze not said here		there	time	calm property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	need	past	King	one day's voyage				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot voyage=Theme
5	reach	to-infinitive	King not said here				home property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	voyage		one day					nom voyage «act 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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