The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 161
For many years Mark has been ferrying people across the river.
Who acts: Mark · What happens: ferry · To what, where: people, river
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 (Mark), 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 years | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ferrying | obl |
| 4 | Mark | Mark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ferrying | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ferrying | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 ferrying | aux |
| 7 | ferrying | ferry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ferrying | obj |
| 9 | across | across | ADP | _ | 11 river | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 river | det |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ferrying | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ferrying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ferry | present · perfect · progressive | Mark | people | the river | year | vn vehicle-51.4.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent people=Theme across river=Trajectory |
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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