The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 82
For seven weeks the wind blew them straight towards the west, and early one morning they caught sight of the island swamps of the sea.
Who acts: wind, sails · What happens: blow, catch, sight · To what, where: sails, sight, island swamps
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, sails), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 weeks | case |
| 2 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 weeks | nummod |
| 3 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 blew | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wind | det |
| 5 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blew | nsubj |
| 6 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 blew | obj |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 west | advmod |
| 9 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 west | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 west | det |
| 11 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blew | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 caught | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 caught | cc |
| 14 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 morning | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 morning | compound |
| 16 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 caught | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 caught | nsubj |
| 18 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 blew | conj |
| 19 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 caught | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 swamps | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 swamps | det |
| 22 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 swamps | compound |
| 23 | swamps | swamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sight | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 sea | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sea | det |
| 26 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 swamps | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | the wind | sails = sail | week | towards the west | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Patient towards west=Recipient | ||
| 2 | catch | past | sails = sail | sight of the island swamps of the sea | morning | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | |||
| 3 | sight | the island swamps of the sea | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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 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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