The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 72
And then the little fleet sailed on, until it was lost to view in the windings of the river.
Who acts: little fleet · What happens: sail on, lose, view · To what, where: fleet, windings
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little fleet), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sailed | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 sailed | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fleet | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fleet | amod |
| 5 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sailed | nsubj |
| 6 | sailed | sail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 sailed | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lost | punct |
| 9 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 lost | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lost | aux:pass |
| 12 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sailed | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 view | mark |
| 14 | view | view | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 lost | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 windings | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 windings | det |
| 17 | windings | winding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 view | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 river | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 river | det |
| 20 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 windings | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail on | participle | the little fleet | then | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lose | past · passive | fleet | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | view | to-infinitive | the windings of the river | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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