The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 62
They soon took leave of the queen, and set sail in a splendid ship; but in a short time a dense fog came on, and in the dark the captain steered out of his course, and they found themselves in a bay which was quite strange to all the crew.
Who acts: hopes, dense fog, captain, bay · What happens: take, come on, steer, find, be · To what, where: leave, dark, hopes, bay
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 (hopes, dense fog, captain, bay), 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 | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 took | advmod |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 queen | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 queen | det |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sail | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sail | cc |
| 10 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sail | amod |
| 11 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 ship | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ship | det |
| 14 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ship | amod |
| 15 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sail | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 came | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 20 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 time | amod |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | obl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 fog | det |
| 23 | dense | dense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fog | amod |
| 24 | fog | fog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADV | _ | 25 came | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 steered | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 steered | cc |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 dark | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 dark | det |
| 31 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 steered | obl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 captain | det |
| 33 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 steered | nsubj |
| 34 | steered | steer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 came | advcl |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 course | case |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 course | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 course | nmod:poss |
| 38 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 steered | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 found | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 found | cc |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 found | nsubj |
| 42 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 43 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 42 found | obj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 bay | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 bay | det |
| 46 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 found | obl |
| 47 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 strange | nsubj |
| 48 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 strange | cop |
| 49 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 50 strange | advmod |
| 50 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 bay | acl:relcl |
| 51 | to | to | ADP | _ | 54 crew | case |
| 52 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 54 crew | det:predet |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 crew | det |
| 54 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 strange | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | hopes = hope | leave of the queen | set sail in a splendid ship obl; soon property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | |||
| 2 | come on | past | a dense fog | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | steer | past | the captain | the dark | out captain's course | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in dark=Destination | |||
| 4 | find | past | hopes = hope | hopes = hope | a bay | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic | |||
| 5 | is | past | a bay | to all crew; strange property | 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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