The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 28
So he said nothing and set about his preparations, ordering his finest ship to be ready to carry him round the coast.
Who acts: king · What happens: say, set, order, be, carry, prepare · To what, where: nothing, finest ship, king · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 said | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 set | cc |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 preparations | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 preparations | nmod:poss |
| 9 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 set | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ordering | punct |
| 11 | ordering | order | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 set | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 ship | nmod:poss |
| 13 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 ship | amod |
| 14 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ordering | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 ready | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ready | cop |
| 17 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ordering | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 carry | mark |
| 19 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ready | xcomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 carry | obj |
| 21 | round | round | ADP | _ | 23 coast | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 coast | det |
| 23 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carry | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | king | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | set | past | king not said here | about king's preparations | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about preparation=Destination | ||||
| 3 | order | gerund | king not said here | king's finest ship | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | king not said here | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | carry | to-infinitive | king not said here | king | round the coast | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 6 | prepare | king | nom preparation «act transitive»: poss=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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