The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 60

Here he found a boat sailing for the coast which he desired to reach, and, having just enough money to pay his passage, he went on board and they started.

Who acts: Japan, boat, coast, feet · What happens: find, sail, desire, reach, have, pay · To what, where: boat, enough money, passage, board

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Japan, boat, coast, feet), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 found	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boat	det
5	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj
6	sailing	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 boat	acl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 coast	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 coast	det
9	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sailing	obl
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 desired	nsubj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 desired	nsubj
12	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 coast	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 reach	mark
14	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 desired	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 having	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 having	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 having	punct
18	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 found	parataxis
19	just	just	ADV	_	20 enough	advmod
20	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 money	amod
21	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 having	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 pay	mark
23	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 having	advcl
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 passage	nmod:poss
25	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pay	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 went	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 went	nsubj
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	parataxis
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 board	case
30	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 started	cc
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 started	nsubj
33	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 went	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	Japan	a boat	here		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Topic
2	sail	gerund	a boat not said here			for the coast	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	desire	past	the coast				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	reach not said to happen	to-infinitive	the coast not said here				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	gerund		enough money			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
6	pay	to-infinitive		Japan's passage			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Asset
7	go	past	Japan		board		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on board=Location
8	start	past	feet = foot				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
9	pass		Japan				nom passage «act intransitive»: poss=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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