The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 25

But this was quite useless, for spring as far as he might from the vessel, it was always under his feet again before he reached the water, and he had to resign himself to his fate, and wait with what patience he could muster until the winds and waves carried the ship into a kind of natural harbour which ran far into the land.

Who acts: this, vessel, Prince, patience, winds, natural harbour · What happens: be, reach, have, resign, wait, muster · To what, where: feet, water, Prince, fate, ship, kind

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 (this, vessel, Prince, patience), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 useless	cc
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 useless	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 useless	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 useless	advmod
5	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 spring	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 spring	case
8	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 useless	conj
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 far	advmod
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 spring	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 might	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 might	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 far	advcl
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 vessel	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 vessel	det
16	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 might	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 feet	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 feet	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 feet	cop
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 feet	advmod
21	under	under	ADP	_	23 feet	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 feet	nmod:poss
23	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 useless	conj
24	again	again	ADV	_	5 useless	advmod
25	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 reached	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 reached	nsubj
27	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 useless	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 water	det
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reached	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 had	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 useless	parataxis
34	to	to	PART	_	35 resign	mark
35	resign	resign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 had	xcomp
36	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 resign	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 fate	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 fate	nmod:poss
39	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 resign	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 wait	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 wait	cc
42	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 useless	parataxis
43	with	with	SCONJ	_	48 muster	mark
44	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	48 muster	obj
45	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 muster	nsubj
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 muster	nsubj
47	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 muster	aux
48	muster	muster	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 wait	advcl
49	until	until	SCONJ	_	54 carried	mark
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 winds	det
51	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 carried	nsubj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 waves	cc
53	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 winds	conj
54	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 muster	advcl
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 ship	det
56	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 carried	obj
57	into	into	ADP	_	59 kind	case
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 kind	det
59	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 carried	obl
60	of	of	ADP	_	62 harbour	case
61	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 harbour	amod
62	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 kind	nmod
63	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	64 ran	nsubj
64	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 harbour	acl:relcl
65	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	64 ran	advmod
66	into	into	ADP	_	68 land	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 land	det
68	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 far	obl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 useless	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	this				again	useless property	tree rules
2	is	past	vessel			Prince's feet		always property	tree rules
3	reach	past	Prince	the water					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent water=Theme
4	have	past	Prince						tree rules
5	resign	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	Prince	Prince's fate				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to fate=Recipient
6	wait	infinitive							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	muster	could	patience						tree rules
8	carry	past	the winds and waves	the ship		a kind of natural harbour			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme
9	run	past	natural harbour					far property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	fate		Prince						nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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