The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 65

Thinking from the stillness that there could be no one on board, the Prince pushed aside the branches and sprang over the side, and found himself surrounded by the crew, who lay motionless as dead men and in a most deplorable condition.

Who acts: you, Prince, crew · What happens: think, be, push, find, surround, lay · To what, where: stillness, one, board, branches, side, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, Prince, crew), 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	Thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 one	csubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 stillness	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stillness	det
4	stillness	stillness	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Thinking	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 be	mark
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 be	expl
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 be	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 one	cop
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 board	case
12	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 one	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pushed	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Prince	det
15	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 pushed	nsubj
16	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 one	parataxis
17	aside	aside	ADV	_	16 pushed	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 branches	det
19	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pushed	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sprang	cc
21	sprang	sprang	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 branches	conj
22	over	over	ADP	_	24 side	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 side	det
24	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pushed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 found	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 found	cc
27	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 pushed	conj
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 found	obj
29	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 found	ccomp
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 crew	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 crew	det
32	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 surrounded	obl:agent
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 lay	punct
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 lay	nsubj
35	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 crew	acl:relcl
36	motionless	motionless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 lay	xcomp
37	as	as	ADP	_	39 men	case
38	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 men	amod
39	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 motionless	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 condition	cc
41	in	in	ADP	_	45 condition	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 condition	det
43	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	44 deplorable	advmod
44	deplorable	deplorable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 condition	amod
45	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 men	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund			the stillness		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	imperative	you not said here	no one	board		tree rules
3	push	past	the Prince	the branches and sprang	the side	aside property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent branch=Theme over side=Trajectory
4	find	past	the Prince not said here	Prince			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme
5	surround	participle					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
6	lay	present	the crew			motionless property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: 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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