The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 64
Calling one of the sailors, he bade him cut them down, and carry them on board the ship.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: call, bade, cut down, carry · To what, where: one, Greece, sailors, ship · 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 (Prince), 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 | Calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 bade | advcl |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Calling | obj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 sailors | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sailors | det |
| 5 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Calling | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bade | nsubj |
| 8 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bade | obj |
| 10 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 bade | xcomp |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cut | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 cut | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 carry | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 carry | cc |
| 15 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cut | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 carry | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 ship | case |
| 18 | board | board | ADP | _ | 20 ship | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ship | det |
| 20 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carry | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | gerund | Prince not said here | one of the sailors | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | bade | past | Prince | Greece | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cut down | infinitive | Prince not said here | sailors = sailor | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | ||||
| 4 | carry | infinitive | Prince not said here | sailors = sailor | the ship | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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