The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 33

Tiidu told them the story of his shipwreck, and the captain promised that he should come on board, and sail with them back to Kungla; and thankful indeed was Tiidu to accept the offer, and to show his gratitude by playing on his pipes whenever he was asked to do so.

Who acts: Tiidu, captain, thankful Tiidu · What happens: tell, promise, come, sail, be, accept · To what, where: story, sailors, board, thankful Tiidu, offer, gratitude · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu, captain, thankful Tiidu), 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	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 shipwreck	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 shipwreck	nmod:poss
8	shipwreck	shipwreck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 story	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 promised	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 promised	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 captain	det
12	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 promised	nsubj
13	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 come	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 come	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 come	aux
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 promised	ccomp
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 board	case
19	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sail	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sail	cc
22	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 come	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sail	obl
25	back	back	ADV	_	22 sail	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 Kungla	case
27	Kungla	Kungla	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 back	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 accept	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 thankful	cc
30	thankful	thankful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Tiidu	amod
31	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	30 thankful	advmod
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 Tiidu	cop
33	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 accept	nsubj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 accept	mark
35	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	ccomp
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 offer	det
37	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 accept	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 show	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 show	cc
40	to	to	PART	_	41 show	mark
41	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	35 accept	parataxis
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 gratitude	nmod:poss
43	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 show	obj
44	by	by	SCONJ	_	45 playing	mark
45	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 show	advcl
46	on	on	ADP	_	48 pipes	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 pipes	nmod:poss
48	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 playing	obl
49	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	45 playing	advmod
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 asked	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 asked	aux:pass
52	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 whenever	advcl:relcl
53	to	to	PART	_	54 do	mark
54	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 asked	xcomp
55	so	so	ADV	_	54 do	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Tiidu	the story of Tiidu's shipwreck	sailors = sailor			tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	past	the captain					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come	should	captain			board		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on board=Location
4	sail	infinitive	captain not said here				with sailors = sailor	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past		thankful Tiidu				tree rules
6	accept not said to happen	to-infinitive	thankful Tiidu	the offer				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme
7	show	to-infinitive		Tiidu's gratitude				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gratitude=Recipient
8	play	gerund				Tiidu's pipes	whenever property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	ask speech: ask	past · passive		captain				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
10	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	captain not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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