The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 63

The waves rocked the girls softly, as if they were lying in a cradle, and they floated on till they met other boats filled with men, singing and making merry.

Who acts: waves · What happens: rock, lie, float, meet, fill, sing · To what, where: girls, cradle, other boats

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 waves	det
2	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rocked	nsubj
3	rocked	rock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girls	det
5	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rocked	obj
6	softly	softly	ADV	_	3 rocked	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lying	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 lying	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 lying	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lying	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lying	aux
12	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 rocked	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 cradle	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cradle	det
15	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lying	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 floated	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 floated	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 floated	nsubj
19	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rocked	conj
20	on	on	SCONJ	_	23 met	mark
21	till	till	SCONJ	_	23 met	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 met	nsubj
23	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 floated	advcl
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 boats	amod
25	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 met	obj
26	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 boats	acl
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 men	case
28	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 filled	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 singing	punct
30	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 met	advcl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 making	cc
32	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 singing	conj
33	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 making	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rock	past	the waves	the girls		softly property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location girl=Theme
2	lie	past · progressive	waves = wave		a cradle		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cradle=Location
3	float	past	waves = wave				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	meet	past	waves = wave	other boats			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Co-Agent
5	fill	participle		other boats not said here		with men	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with man=Instrument
6	sing speech: express	gerund	waves = wave not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	make	gerund	waves = wave not said here			merry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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