The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 87

So he packed all his treasures in large chests, and sent them on board the first ship that was sailing to his native land, and followed them with a light heart.

Who acts: Tiidu, first ship · What happens: pack, send, sail, follow, treasure · To what, where: treasures, large chests, first ship, native land

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, first 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 packed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 packed	nsubj
3	packed	pack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 treasures	det:predet
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 treasures	nmod:poss
6	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 packed	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 chests	case
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 chests	amod
9	chests	chest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 packed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sent	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sent	cc
12	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 packed	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sent	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	18 ship	case
15	board	board	ADP	_	18 ship	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ship	det
17	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 ship	amod
18	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sent	obl
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 sailing	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sailing	aux
21	sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 ship	acl:relcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 land	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 land	nmod:poss
24	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 land	amod
25	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sailing	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 followed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 followed	cc
28	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 packed	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 followed	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 heart	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 heart	det
32	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heart	compound
33	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 followed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 packed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pack	past	Tiidu	Tiidu's treasures	large chests		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme in chest=Destination
2	send	past	Tiidu not said here	treasures = treasure	the first ship		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	sail	past · progressive	the first ship		Tiidu's native land		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to land=Trajectory
4	follow	past	Tiidu not said here	treasures = treasure		with a light heart	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	treasure		Tiidu				nom treasure «possession 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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