The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 18

At last the boat came alongside the ship, and now the Queen saw that it was a stone boat, out of which there came up on board the ship a fearfully ugly Witch.

Who acts: last boat, Queen, boat · What happens: come, see, be, come up · To what, where: ship, stone boat, fearfully ugly Witch

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 (last boat, Queen, boat), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boat	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boat	det
4	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	alongside	alongside	ADP	_	8 ship	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ship	det
8	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 saw	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Queen	det
13	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 boat	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 boat	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 boat	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 boat	det
19	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 boat	compound
20	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
22	out	out	ADP	_	24 which	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 came	obl
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 came	advmod
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 saw	conj
27	up	up	ADV	_	26 came	advmod
28	on	on	ADP	_	31 ship	case
29	board	board	ADP	_	31 ship	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ship	det
31	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 Witch	det
33	fearfully	fearfully	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Witch	amod
34	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Witch	amod
35	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	past	the last boat		the ship		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme alongside ship=Location
2	see	past	the Queen			now	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	boat	a stone boat			tree rules
4	come up	past	the Queen not said here	a fearfully ugly Witch	the ship; there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out which=Initial_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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