The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 63
One day, as he was looking sadly out to sea, he became aware of a curious looking boat which was drifting slowly towards the shore, and which presently ran into a little creek and there stuck fast in the sand.
Who acts: Japan, curious looking boat · What happens: look, become, drift, run, stick · To what, where: shore, little creek, sand
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, curious looking boat), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 became | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 looking | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 looking | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 looking | aux |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 became | advcl |
| 8 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 9 out | advmod |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 looking | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 out | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 looking | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 became | nsubj |
| 14 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 became | xcomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 boat | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 boat | det |
| 18 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 boat | amod |
| 19 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 boat | amod |
| 20 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 aware | obl |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 drifting | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 drifting | aux |
| 23 | drifting | drift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 boat | acl:relcl |
| 24 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 23 drifting | advmod |
| 25 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 27 shore | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 shore | det |
| 27 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drifting | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 ran | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 ran | cc |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 ran | obj |
| 31 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 32 ran | advmod |
| 32 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 became | conj |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 creek | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 creek | det |
| 35 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 creek | amod |
| 36 | creek | creek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ran | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 stuck | cc |
| 38 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 stuck | advmod |
| 39 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 ran | conj |
| 40 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 stuck | advmod |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 sand | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 sand | det |
| 43 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 stuck | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · progressive | Japan | out property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | become | past | Japan | day | aware property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | drift | past · progressive | a curious looking boat | the shore | slowly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards shore=Destination | |||
| 5 | run | past | Japan not said here | a little creek | presently property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent which=Theme into creek=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | stick | participle | Japan not said here | the sand; there | fast property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in sand=Destination |
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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