The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 101
The minister left the rest of his followers on board the ship, and taking a small boat rowed himself to land, in order to look about him and to find out if the island was really as deserted as it seemed.
Who acts: minister, taking, it · What happens: leave, take, row, land, look, find out · To what, where: rest, small boat, Minister, island
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (minister, taking, it), 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 minister | det |
| 2 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rest | det |
| 5 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 followers | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 followers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rest | nmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 ship | case |
| 10 | board | board | ADP | _ | 12 ship | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ship | det |
| 12 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 followers | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rowed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rowed | cc |
| 15 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 rowed | csubj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 boat | det |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 boat | amod |
| 18 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taking | obj |
| 19 | rowed | row | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 rowed | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 land | mark |
| 22 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 rowed | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 look | punct |
| 24 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 27 look | mark |
| 25 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 in | fixed |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 look | mark |
| 27 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 land | parataxis |
| 28 | about | about | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 look | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 find | cc |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 find | mark |
| 32 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 27 look | conj |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 find | compound:prt |
| 34 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 40 deserted | mark |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 island | det |
| 36 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 deserted | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 deserted | aux:pass |
| 38 | really | really | ADV | _ | 40 deserted | advmod |
| 39 | as | as | ADV | _ | 40 deserted | advmod |
| 40 | deserted | desert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 find | advcl |
| 41 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 43 seemed | mark |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 seemed | nsubj |
| 43 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 deserted | ccomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the minister | the rest of Minister's followers on the ship | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | a small boat | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | |||||
| 3 | row | past | taking | Minister | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | land | to-infinitive | taking not said here | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look | to-infinitive | about Minister | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | |||||
| 6 | find out | to-infinitive | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | desert a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | the island | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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: «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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