Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 36
But as she was looking at them and clapping her hands at each fresh one, the crew quietly cut the anchor cable and were out to sea, before the princess or her friends on shore had any idea what was happening.
Who acts: princess, crew, idea · What happens: look, clap, cut, be, have, happen · To what, where: hands, anchor cable, idea
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, crew, idea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 cut | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 looking | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looking | aux |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 cut | advcl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looking | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 clapping | cc |
| 9 | clapping | clap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 looking | conj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hands | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 clapping | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 one | det |
| 14 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clapping | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 looking | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 crew | det |
| 18 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cut | nsubj |
| 19 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 20 cut | advmod |
| 20 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cable | det |
| 22 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cable | compound |
| 23 | cable | cable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cut | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 out | cc |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 out | cop |
| 26 | out | out | ADV | _ | 20 cut | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 sea | case |
| 28 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 out | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 princess | punct |
| 30 | before | before | ADP | _ | 32 princess | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 princess | det |
| 32 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 had | nsubj |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 friends | cc |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 friends | nmod:poss |
| 35 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 princess | conj |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 shore | case |
| 37 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 friends | nmod |
| 38 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cut | parataxis |
| 39 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 40 idea | det |
| 40 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 had | obj |
| 41 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 43 happening | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 happening | aux |
| 43 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 idea | acl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · progressive | princess | at toys = toy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | clap | gerund | princess not said here | princess's hands | at each fresh one | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | |||
| 3 | cut | past | the crew | the anchor cable | quietly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cable=Product | |||
| 4 | is | past | the crew not said here | to sea; out property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | past | the princess or princess's friends on shore | any idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | ||||
| 6 | happen | past · progressive | any idea | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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