The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 23
The Queen sat stunned and motionless, but the boat at once shot away from the ship with her, and before long she was out of sight.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: sit, stun, shoot away, be · To what, where: boat, ship, sight
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | stunned | stun | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sat | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 motionless | cc |
| 6 | motionless | motionless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stunned | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 boat | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 boat | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boat | det |
| 10 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 11 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 13 shot | mark |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 shot | advmod |
| 13 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | advcl |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 shot | advmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 ship | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ship | det |
| 17 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shot | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 shot | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sight | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 sight | cc |
| 22 | before | before | ADV | _ | 23 long | advmod |
| 23 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 sight | advmod |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 sight | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 sight | cop |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 sight | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 sight | case |
| 28 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the Queen | the boat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stun | participle | the Queen not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | shoot away | past | the Queen not said here | the ship | with Queen; away, once property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from ship=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | is | past | Queen | sight | long property | tree rules |
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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