The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 77
Then he took the helm and steered the vessel back to her father’s kingdom.
Who acts: youth · What happens: take, steer back · To what, where: helm, vessel, kingdom
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 (youth), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 helm | det |
| 5 | helm | helm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 steered | cc |
| 7 | steered | steer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 vessel | det |
| 9 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 steered | obj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 steered | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 kingdom | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 father | case |
| 15 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 steered | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | youth | the helm | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helm=Theme | |||
| 2 | steer back | past | youth not said here | the vessel | princess's father's kingdom | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme to kingdom=Destination |
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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