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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 17

To his great joy, he found that one of them was sailing for Kungla in a few days, and he hastily went on board, and asked for the captain.

Who acts: Tiidu, one · What happens: find, sail, go, ask, joy · To what, where: board · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu, one), 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

casenmod:possamodoblpunctnsubjmarknsubjcasenmodauxccompcaseoblcasedetamodoblpunctccnsubjadvmodconjcaseoblpunctccconjcasedetoblpunctrootToADPhisPRONgreatADJjoyNOUN,PUNCThePRONfoundVERBthatSCONJoneNUMofADPthemPRONwasAUXsailingVERBforADPKunglaPROPNinADPaDETfewADJdaysNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONhastilyADVwentVERBonADPboardNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJaskedVERBforADPtheDETcaptainNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TotoADP_4 joycase
2hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 joynmod:poss
3greatgreatADJDegree=Pos4 joyamod
4joyjoyNOUNNumber=Sing7 foundobl
5,,PUNCT_4 joypunct
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 foundnsubj
7foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8thatthatSCONJ_13 sailingmark
9oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card13 sailingnsubj
10ofofADP_11 themcase
11themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs9 onenmod
12wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 sailingaux
13sailingsailVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part7 foundccomp
14forforADP_15 Kunglacase
15KunglaKunglaPROPNNumber=Sing13 sailingobl
16ininADP_19 dayscase
17aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 daysdet
18fewfewADJDegree=Pos19 daysamod
19daysdayNOUNNumber=Plur13 sailingobl
20,,PUNCT_24 wentpunct
21andandCCONJ_24 wentcc
22hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 wentnsubj
23hastilyhastilyADV_24 wentadvmod
24wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 foundconj
25ononADP_26 boardcase
26boardboardNOUNNumber=Sing24 wentobl
27,,PUNCT_29 askedpunct
28andandCCONJ_29 askedcc
29askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 foundconj
30forforADP_32 captaincase
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 captaindet
32captaincaptainNOUNNumber=Sing29 askedobl
33..PUNCT_7 foundpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1findpastTiiduto Tiidu's great joyvn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2sailpast · progressiveone of merchantmendayfor Kunglavn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3gopastTiiduboardhastily propertyvn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on board=Location
4ask speech: askpastTiidu not said herefor the captainvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5joyTiidunom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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