The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 10
And besides being an ogress she was also a witch, and by her black arts had sunk the ship in which the father of Sigurd and Lineik had set sail.
Who acts: ogress, father · What happens: beside, be, sink, set · To what, where: ogress, witch, ship, sail
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogress, father), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 besides | cc |
| 2 | besides | beside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 ogress | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ogress | det |
| 5 | ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 besides | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 witch | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 witch | cop |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 witch | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 witch | det |
| 10 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ogress | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sunk | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sunk | cc |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 arts | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 arts | nmod:poss |
| 15 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 arts | amod |
| 16 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sunk | obl |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sunk | aux |
| 18 | sunk | sink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 besides | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ship | det |
| 20 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sunk | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 set | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 father | det |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 set | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Sigurd | case |
| 26 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 father | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Lineik | cc |
| 28 | Lineik | Lineik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Sigurd | conj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 set | aux |
| 30 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 ship | acl:relcl |
| 31 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 set | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 besides | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beside | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | gerund | a ogress | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | ogress | a witch | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sink | past · perfect | the ship | by ogress's black arts | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ship=Patient | ||||
| 5 | set | past · perfect | the father of Sigurd and Lineik | sail | the ship | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sail=Theme in which=Destination |
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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