The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 61
But after some days a fearful storm came on, which completely wrecked the little ship, and the Prince only saved his life by swimming a long, long way to the only land that was in sight, and which proved to be a desert island.
Who acts: fearful storm, Prince, only land · What happens: come on, wreck, save, swim, be, prove · To what, where: little ship, life, long long way, only land, sight, desert island
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 (fearful storm, Prince, only land), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 days | det |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 storm | det |
| 6 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 storm | amod |
| 7 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wrecked | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 wrecked | nsubj |
| 12 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 13 wrecked | advmod |
| 13 | wrecked | wreck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ship | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ship | amod |
| 16 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wrecked | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saved | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saved | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Prince | det |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 saved | nsubj |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 saved | advmod |
| 22 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wrecked | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 life | nmod:poss |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saved | obj |
| 25 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 26 swimming | mark |
| 26 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 saved | advcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 way | det |
| 28 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 way | amod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 long | punct |
| 30 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 way | amod |
| 31 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 swimming | obl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 land | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 land | det |
| 34 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 land | amod |
| 35 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 swimming | obl |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 sight | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 sight | cop |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 sight | case |
| 39 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 land | acl:relcl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 proved | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 proved | cc |
| 42 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 proved | nsubj |
| 43 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 island | mark |
| 45 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 48 island | cop |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 island | det |
| 47 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 island | compound |
| 48 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 proved | ccomp |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come on | past | a fearful storm | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wreck | past | the little ship | completely property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient | ||||
| 3 | save | past | the Prince | Japan's life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 4 | swim | gerund | the Prince not said here | a long long way | the only land | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to land=Destination | |||
| 5 | is | past | the only land | sight | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | prove | past | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | is a | to-infinitive | a desert island | tree rules |
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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