The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 44
One day, as he sat in his palace looking out to sea, a great ship sailed into the harbour and several merchants came on shore.
Who acts: king, great ship, several merchants · What happens: sit, look out, sail, come · To what, where: palace, harbour, shore
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, great ship, several merchants), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sat | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 sat | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sat | nsubj |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 palace | nmod:poss |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 sat | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 looking | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looking | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sailed | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 ship | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ship | amod |
| 17 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sailed | nsubj |
| 18 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sat | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 harbour | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 harbour | det |
| 21 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sailed | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 came | cc |
| 23 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 merchants | amod |
| 24 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sailed | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 shore | case |
| 27 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | king | king's palace | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in palace=Location | |||
| 2 | look out | gerund | king not said here | to sea | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sail | past | a great ship | the harbour | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into harbour=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | come | past | several merchants | shore | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location |
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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