The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 17
As it approached she could make out that it was a boat, and could see the figure of some one sitting in it and rowing it.
Who acts: sea, Queen · What happens: approach, make out, be, see, row, figure · To what, where: boat, figure, sea, one sitting
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 (sea, Queen), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 approached | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 approached | nsubj |
| 3 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 make | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | aux |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 approached | ccomp |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 make | compound:prt |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 boat | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 boat | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 boat | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 boat | det |
| 12 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 see | cc |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 make | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 figure | det |
| 18 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sitting | case |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 sitting | det |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 sitting | nummod |
| 22 | sitting | sitting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 figure | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sitting | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 rowing | cc |
| 26 | rowing | row | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 sitting | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 rowing | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 approached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | past | sea | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make out | could | Queen | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | sea | a boat | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | could | Queen not said here | the figure of some one sitting in sea | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | row | gerund | Queen not said here | sea | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location | ||||
| 6 | figure | some one sitting in sea | nom figure «communication 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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