The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 1

Then they joyfully left the desert island, and after a long and prosperous voyage over calm seas they at length came in sight of land, and resolved to go on shore, not only to take in a fresh stock of water and provisions, but also to find out, if possible, where they were and in what direction to proceed.

Who acts: they, seas · What happens: leave, come, resolve, go, not take in, find out · To what, where: desert island, calm seas, sight, shore, fresh stock, direction

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, seas), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 left	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
3	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	4 left	advmod
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 island	det
6	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 island	compound
7	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 voyage	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 voyage	cc
10	after	after	ADP	_	15 voyage	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 voyage	det
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 voyage	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 prosperous	cc
14	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 long	conj
15	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl
16	over	over	ADP	_	18 seas	case
17	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 seas	amod
18	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 voyage	nmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 came	nsubj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 length	case
21	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 they	nmod
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seas	acl:relcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 sight	case
24	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 land	case
26	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sight	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 resolved	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 resolved	cc
29	resolved	resolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 left	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 go	mark
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 resolved	xcomp
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 shore	case
33	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 go	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 take	punct
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 take	advmod
36	only	only	ADV	_	38 take	advmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 take	mark
38	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 go	conj
39	in	in	ADP	_	38 take	compound:prt
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 stock	det
41	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 stock	amod
42	stock	stock	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 take	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 water	case
44	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 stock	nmod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 provisions	cc
46	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 water	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 find	punct
48	but	but	CCONJ	_	51 find	cc
49	also	also	ADV	_	51 find	advmod
50	to	to	PART	_	51 find	mark
51	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 left	conj
52	out	out	ADP	_	51 find	compound:prt
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 possible	punct
54	if	if	SCONJ	_	55 possible	mark
55	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 find	xcomp
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 direction	punct
57	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	63 direction	advmod
58	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 direction	nsubj
59	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 direction	cop
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 direction	cc
61	in	in	ADP	_	63 direction	case
62	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	63 direction	det
63	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 possible	parataxis
64	to	to	PART	_	65 proceed	mark
65	proceed	proceed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	63 direction	acl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	they	the desert island		after a long voyage over calm seas; then	joyfully property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme
2	come	past	seas = sea	calm seas not said here	sight of land			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sea=Theme
3	resolve	participle	they not said here					tree rules
4	go	to-infinitive	they not said here		shore			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on shore=Location
5	not take in	to-infinitive	they not said here	a fresh stock of water and provisions				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stock=Theme
6	find out	to-infinitive	they not said here				possible property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	seas = sea		what direction			tree rules
8	proceed	to-infinitive	they not said here					vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
9	sight			land				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient
10	stock			water and provisions				nom stock «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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