The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 85

They thanked her greatly for her help and advice, and set out from the island, but on the way they saw a huge fish coming towards them, with great splashing and dashing of waves.

Who acts: lives, huge fish, whale · What happens: thank, set out, see, come, dash, help · To what, where: whale, island, huge fish, way

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lives, huge fish, whale), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thanked	nsubj
2	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thanked	obj
4	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	2 thanked	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 help	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 help	nmod:poss
7	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thanked	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 advice	cc
9	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 help	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 set	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 set	cc
12	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thanked	advcl
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 set	compound:prt
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 island	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 island	det
16	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 set	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saw	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 saw	cc
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 way	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 way	det
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saw	obl
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thanked	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fish	det
25	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fish	amod
26	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saw	obj
27	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 fish	acl
28	towards	towards	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 coming	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 splashing	punct
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 splashing	case
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 splashing	amod
33	splashing	splashing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saw	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 dashing	cc
35	dashing	dash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 splashing	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 waves	case
37	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 dashing	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	lives = life		whale		for whale's help and advice; greatly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for help=Attribute
2	set out	infinitive	lives = life not said here			the island		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from island=Initial_Location
3	see	past	lives = life	a huge fish		the way	with great splashing	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus
4	come	gerund	a huge fish not said here				towards lives = life	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards they=Initial_Location
5	dash	gerund	lives = life not said here				of waves	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of wave=Trajectory
6	help		whale					nom help «act transitive»: poss=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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