The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 25
It was great carelessness of him, she said, to leave no one to watch the ship with her.
Who acts: boat, Witch · What happens: be, say, leave, watch · To what, where: great carelessness, one, ship · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (boat, Witch), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 carelessness | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 carelessness | cop |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 carelessness | amod |
| 4 | carelessness | carelessness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 carelessness | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 carelessness | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 leave | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 leave | mark |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leave | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 watch | mark |
| 16 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 leave | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ship | det |
| 18 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 watch | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 watch | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carelessness | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | boat | great carelessness | of spell | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Witch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | leave | to-infinitive | no one | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||||
| 4 | watch | to-infinitive | the ship | with Witch | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=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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