The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 13
The minister then conducted the mother and daughter back to the ship; the anchor was raised, the sails spread, and a fair wind was behind them.
Who acts: minister, sails, fair wind · What happens: conduct, raise, spread, be · To what, where: mother, ship, anchor
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (minister, sails, fair wind), 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 | 4 conducted | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 conducted | advmod |
| 4 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mother | det |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 conducted | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 daughter | cc |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mother | conj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 ship | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 ship | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ship | det |
| 12 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 conducted | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 raised | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 anchor | det |
| 15 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 raised | aux:pass |
| 17 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 conducted | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 spread | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sails | det |
| 20 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 spread | nsubj |
| 21 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 raised | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 them | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 them | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 wind | det |
| 25 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 wind | amod |
| 26 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 them | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 them | cop |
| 28 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 raised | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 conducted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conduct | past | the minister | the mother and daughter | the ship | then | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mother=Theme to ship=Destination | ||
| 2 | raise | past · passive | the anchor | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | spread | present | the sails | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | a fair wind | behind sails = sail | tree rules |
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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