Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 9
It was a beau-ti-ful ship with white sails and white masts, and it had been fitted up on purpose for this voyage.
Who acts: ship · What happens: be, fit up · To what, where: beau ti ful ship, ship, purpose
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 (ship), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ship | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ship | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ship | det |
| 4 | beau | beau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ship | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 beau | punct |
| 6 | ti | ti | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ship | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 ti | punct |
| 8 | ful | ful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ship | amod |
| 9 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 sails | case |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sails | amod |
| 12 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ship | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 masts | cc |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 masts | amod |
| 15 | masts | mast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sails | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fitted | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fitted | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fitted | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fitted | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 fitted | aux:pass |
| 21 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ship | parataxis |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 fitted | compound:prt |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 purpose | case |
| 24 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fitted | obl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 voyage | case |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 voyage | det |
| 27 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fitted | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ship | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | ship | a beau ti ful ship | with white sails and white masts | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fit up | past · perfect · passive | ship | purpose | for this voyage | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme on purpose=Trajectory |
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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