The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 57
So she and her accomplice were put in a ship which was bored through with holes, and were drawn out into the sea, where they soon perished in the waves.
Who acts: holes · What happens: put, bore, draw out, perish · To what, where: captain, ship, holes, sea, waves
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 (holes), 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 | _ | 7 put | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 put | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 accomplice | cc |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 accomplice | nmod:poss |
| 5 | accomplice | accomplice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 she | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | aux:pass |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 ship | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ship | det |
| 10 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 bored | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bored | aux:pass |
| 13 | bored | bore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ship | acl:relcl |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 holes | case |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 holes | case |
| 16 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bored | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 drawn | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 drawn | cc |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 drawn | aux:pass |
| 20 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 put | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 drawn | compound:prt |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 sea | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sea | det |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drawn | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 perished | punct |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 perished | advmod |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 perished | nsubj |
| 28 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 perished | advmod |
| 29 | perished | perish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 drawn | parataxis |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 waves | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 waves | det |
| 32 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 perished | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | captain | a ship | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in ship=Destination | ||||
| 2 | bore | past · passive | a ship | holes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | draw out | past · passive | into the sea result | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: into sea=Result | |||||
| 4 | perish | past | holes = hole | the waves | soon property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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