The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 95
Where other ships take a year, mine makes the voyage in a day, and where they would require ten years mine will do the distance in a week.”
Who acts: other ships, mine, brothers · What happens: take, make, require, do · To what, where: voyage, distance
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 (other ships, mine, brothers), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 take | advmod |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ships | amod |
| 3 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 take | nsubj |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 makes | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 8 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 makes | nsubj |
| 9 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 voyage | det |
| 11 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 makes | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 makes | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 require | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 require | cc |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 require | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 require | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 require | aux |
| 20 | require | require | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 makes | parataxis |
| 21 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 years | nummod |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 require | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 do | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 do | aux |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 require | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 distance | det |
| 27 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 do | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 week | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 week | det |
| 30 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 do | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 makes | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | other ships | year | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | present | mine | the voyage | day | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset voyage=Product | |||
| 3 | require | would | brothers = brother | year | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | future | mine | the distance | week | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Eventuality |
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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