The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 158
The ferryman, however, did not get in but pushed the boat off....
Who acts: ferryman · What happens: not get in, push off · To what, where: boat
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ferryman), 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 ferryman | det |
| 2 | ferryman | ferryman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 ferryman | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 get | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 get | advmod |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADV | _ | 8 get | advmod |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 pushed | cc |
| 11 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boat | det |
| 13 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pushed | obj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 pushed | compound:prt |
| 15 | .... | .... | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get in | past · do-support | the ferryman | however property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | push off | past | the ferryman not said here | the boat | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=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 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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