The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 89

There was a fierce battle then, and the sea became so stormy that it was not very easy to keep the boat from being filled by the waves.

Who acts: fierce battle, sea, waves · What happens: be, become, not be, keep, fill · To what, where: boat

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 (fierce battle, sea, waves), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 battle	det
4	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 battle	amod
5	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 was	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 became	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 became	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 became	nsubj
11	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 stormy	advmod
13	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 became	xcomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 easy	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 easy	expl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 easy	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 easy	advmod
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 easy	advmod
19	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stormy	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 keep	mark
21	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 easy	csubj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 boat	det
23	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 keep	obj
24	from	from	SCONJ	_	26 filled	mark
25	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 filled	aux:pass
26	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 keep	advcl
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 waves	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 waves	det
29	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 filled	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a fierce battle		there	then		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	become	past	the sea				stormy property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	not is	past	the sea not said here				easy property	tree rules
4	keep	to-infinitive		the boat				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme
5	fill	gerund · passive	the waves					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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