The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 13
Sigurd and his Queen were one day on deck, when most of the others on the ship had fallen asleep.
Who acts: Sigurd, most others · What happens: be, fall · To what, where: one day, deck, ship
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 (Sigurd, most others), 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 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 day | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Queen | cc |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Queen | nmod:poss |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sigurd | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 day | cop |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 day | nummod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 deck | case |
| 9 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 day | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fallen | punct |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 20 fallen | mark |
| 12 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 others | amod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 others | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 others | det |
| 15 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fallen | nsubj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 ship | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ship | det |
| 18 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fallen | obl |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fallen | aux |
| 20 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 day | acl:relcl |
| 21 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fallen | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Sigurd and Sigurd's Queen | one day | deck | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fall | past · perfect | the most others | the ship | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ship=Location |
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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