The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 30
They met with no further adventures worth speaking of, and presently found themselves within two leagues of the harbour for which they were making.
Who acts: pages · What happens: meet, speak, find, make · To what, where: further adventures, pages · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (pages), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 met | nsubj |
| 2 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 adventures | case |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 adventures | det |
| 5 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 adventures | amod |
| 6 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 met | obj |
| 7 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 adventures | amod |
| 8 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 worth | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 speaking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 found | cc |
| 12 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 13 found | advmod |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 met | conj |
| 14 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 found | obj |
| 15 | within | within | ADP | _ | 17 leagues | case |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 leagues | nummod |
| 17 | leagues | league | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 found | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 harbour | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 harbour | det |
| 20 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 leagues | nmod |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 making | obl |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 making | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 making | aux |
| 25 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 harbour | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | pages = page | no further adventures | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | pages = page not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | find | past | pages = page not said here | pages = page | within two leagues of the harbour; presently property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic | |||
| 4 | make | past · progressive | pages = page | for the harbour | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for which=Asset |
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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