The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 15

So he sprang into the little boat and rowed away without finding it at all hard work, for the boat was made all of white paper and was as light as a rose leaf.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: spring, row away, find, make, be · To what, where: little boat, boat, hard work

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (Prince), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sprang	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sprang	nsubj
3	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 boat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boat	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boat	amod
7	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sprang	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rowed	cc
9	rowed	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sprang	conj
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 rowed	advmod
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	12 finding	mark
12	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 rowed	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 finding	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 work	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 work	det
16	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 work	amod
17	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 finding	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 made	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 boat	det
21	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 made	aux:pass
23	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 rowed	parataxis
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 made	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 paper	case
26	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 paper	amod
27	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 all	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 light	cc
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 light	cop
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 light	advmod
31	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 made	conj
32	as	as	ADP	_	35 leaf	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 leaf	det
34	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 leaf	compound
35	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 light	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spring	past	Prince		the little boat		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into boat=Destination
2	row away	past	Prince not said here			away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	find	gerund	Prince not said here	boat	all hard work		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at work=Asset
4	make	past · passive		the boat			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary all=Product
5	is	past				as a rose leaf; light property	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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