The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 90

After this fight had gone on for some time, they saw that the sea was dyed with blood; the big whale and the fifteen smaller ones disappeared, and they got to land safe and sound.

Who acts: fight, waves, big whale · What happens: go on, see, dye, disappear, get, land · To what, where: sea · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (fight, waves, big 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	5 gone	mark
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 fight	det
3	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 saw	advcl
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 gone	compound:prt
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 dyed	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sea	det
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dyed	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 dyed	aux:pass
17	dyed	dye	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 saw	ccomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 blood	case
19	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dyed	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 disappeared	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 whale	det
22	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 whale	amod
23	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 disappeared	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 ones	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ones	det
26	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 ones	nummod
27	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 ones	amod
28	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 whale	conj
29	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saw	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 got	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 got	cc
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 got	nsubj
33	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 disappeared	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 land	mark
35	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 got	xcomp
36	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 land	xcomp
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 sound	cc
38	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 safe	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past · perfect	this fight		time		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	waves = wave				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	dye	past · passive		the sea		with blood	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	disappear	past	the big whale and the fifteen smaller ones				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	get	past	waves = wave				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	land	to-infinitive	waves = wave not said here			safe property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=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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