The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 57

The boat whirled three, four times round, and became filled to the brim with water: it began to sink!

Who acts: boat · What happens: whirl, become, fill, begin, sink

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boat), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boat	det
2	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whirled	nsubj
3	whirled	whirl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 times	nummod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 four	punct
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 three	conj
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 whirled	obl:unmarked
8	round	round	ADV	_	3 whirled	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 became	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 became	cc
11	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 whirled	conj
12	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 became	xcomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 brim	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 brim	det
15	brim	brim	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 filled	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 water	case
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 brim	nmod
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 began	nsubj
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 whirled	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 sink	mark
22	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 whirled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	whirl	past	the boat	time	round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	become	past	the boat not said here			tree rules
3	fill	participle	the boat not said here		to the brim with water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	begin	past	boat			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	sink	to-infinitive	boat not said here			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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