The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 44
They both rowed as hard as they could night and day, and their little boat went so quickly that they reached the old King before the other two did.
Who acts: leaves, little boat, other two · What happens: row, go, reach, do · To what, where: old King
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leaves, little boat, other two), 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 | 3 rowed | nsubj |
| 2 | both | both | ADV | _ | 3 rowed | advmod |
| 3 | rowed | row | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 hard | advmod |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 rowed | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 night | case |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 night | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 night | aux |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rowed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 day | cc |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 night | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 boat | nmod:poss |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 boat | amod |
| 16 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rowed | conj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 quickly | advmod |
| 19 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 reached | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 reached | nsubj |
| 22 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 went | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 King | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 King | amod |
| 25 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 reached | obj |
| 26 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 30 did | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 two | det |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 two | amod |
| 29 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 did | nsubj |
| 30 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 reached | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | row | past | leaves = leaf | night | both, hard property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | go | past | leaves's little boat | quickly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | leaves = leaf | the old King | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent king=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | past | the other two | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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