The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 9
As he sailed there came upon him so thick a mist that he altogether lost his bearings, but after long trouble he found land.
Who acts: Hermod · What happens: sail, come, lose, find · To what, where: bearings, land
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 (Hermod), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 sailed | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sailed | nsubj |
| 3 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | advcl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sailed | advmod |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | obl |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 thick | advmod |
| 9 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 came | xcomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mist | det |
| 11 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thick | nsubj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 lost | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lost | nsubj |
| 14 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 15 lost | advmod |
| 15 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thick | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bearings | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bearings | bearing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lost | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 found | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 found | cc |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 trouble | case |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 trouble | amod |
| 22 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 found | nsubj |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 25 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | Hermod | there | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | past | upon Hermod; thick property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | |||||
| 3 | lose | past | Hermod | Hermod's bearings | altogether property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bearing=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | find | past | Hermod | land | after long trouble | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic |
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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