Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 6
The king, with his wise men and brave knights, set sail early in the day; but Prince William with his younger friends waited a little while.
Who acts: king · What happens: wait
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: who acts (king), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 men | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 men | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 men | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 king | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 knights | cc |
| 9 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 knights | amod |
| 10 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 men | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sail | punct |
| 12 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sail | amod |
| 13 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 men | conj |
| 14 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 sail | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 early | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 waited | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 waited | cc |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 William | nmod:desc |
| 21 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 waited | nsubj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 friends | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 friends | nmod:poss |
| 24 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 friends | amod |
| 25 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 William | nmod |
| 26 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 while | det |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 while | amod |
| 29 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 waited | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the king with King's wise men and brave knights and set sail | while | vn exist-47.1 «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: «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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