The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 16
A good while after Sigurd had gone below the Queen saw something black on the sea, which seemed to be coming nearer.
Who acts: Sigurd, good while, sea · What happens: go, see, seem, come · To what, where: good while, something, sea
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, good while, sea), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 while | amod |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 gone | mark |
| 5 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gone | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | aux |
| 7 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 while | acl:relcl |
| 8 | below | below | ADP | _ | 10 Queen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Queen | det |
| 10 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gone | obl |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 saw | obj |
| 13 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 something | amod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seemed | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 seemed | nsubj |
| 19 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sea | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 coming | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 coming | aux |
| 22 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 seemed | xcomp |
| 23 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 coming | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | Sigurd | a good while not said here | below the Queen | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location while=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | a good while | something | the sea | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | seem | past | the sea | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | come | to-infinitive · progressive | the sea not said here | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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