The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 57
After she had gone so far that she could not see the ship, she sailed on through darkness until she landed beside a three-headed Giant.
Who acts: Witch · What happens: go, not see, sail on, land · To what, where: ship, darkness
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 (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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 gone | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 sailed | advcl |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 far | advmod |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 gone | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 see | advmod |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 far | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ship | det |
| 13 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sailed | nsubj |
| 16 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 sailed | compound:prt |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 darkness | case |
| 19 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sailed | obl |
| 20 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 22 landed | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 landed | nsubj |
| 22 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sailed | advcl |
| 23 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 28 Giant | mark |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 Giant | det |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 headed | nummod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 three | punct |
| 27 | headed | headed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Giant | amod |
| 28 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 landed | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | Witch | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not see | could | Witch | the ship | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sail on | past | Witch | darkness | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through darkness=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | land | past | Witch | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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