The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 15
They had a quick voyage, and in six days they reached the land, and at once set out for the capital, a messenger being sent on first by the minister to inform the king of what had happened.
Who acts: sails, minister · What happens: have, reach, set out, send, inform, happen · To what, where: quick voyage, land, messenger, king
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 (sails, minister), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 voyage | det |
| 4 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 voyage | amod |
| 5 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 reached | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 reached | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 days | case |
| 9 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 days | nummod |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 reached | obl |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 reached | nsubj |
| 12 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 land | det |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reached | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 set | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 set | cc |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 once | case |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 set | obl |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | parataxis |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 set | compound:prt |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 capital | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 capital | det |
| 23 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sent | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 messenger | det |
| 26 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 sent | aux:pass |
| 28 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 set | conj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 first | case |
| 30 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 28 sent | obl |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 minister | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 minister | det |
| 33 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sent | obl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 inform | mark |
| 35 | inform | inform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 sent | advcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 king | det |
| 37 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 inform | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 what | case |
| 39 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 king | nmod |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 happened | aux |
| 41 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 what | acl:relcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | sails = sail | a quick voyage | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voyage=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | sails = sail | the land | day | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent land=Theme | |||
| 3 | set out | participle | for the capital | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | send | gerund · passive | the minister | a messenger | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | inform speech: other | to-infinitive | the minister not said here | the king | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: 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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