Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 25
A small boat was quickly launched, and the prince with a few of his bravest friends leaped into it.
What happens: launch, leap · To what, where: small boat, bravest friends, boat
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The White Ship.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 boat | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boat | amod |
| 3 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 launched | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 launched | aux:pass |
| 5 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 6 launched | advmod |
| 6 | launched | launch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 prince | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 prince | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 launched | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 few | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 few | det |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 prince | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 friends | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 friends | nmod:poss |
| 16 | bravest | brave | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 friends | amod |
| 17 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 few | nmod |
| 18 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 friends | acl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 leaped | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 launched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | launch | past · passive | a small boat | the prince with a few of Prince's bravest friends obl; quickly property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leap | participle | Prince's bravest friends not said here | boat | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Destination |
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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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