The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 115
No, it is no gull, it is the wonder-ship flying along with billowing sails.
Who acts: gull, wonder ship · What happens: be, fly, billow · To what, where: gull, wonder ship
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gull, wonder ship), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 gull | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gull | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gull | cop |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 gull | det |
| 6 | gull | gull | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ship | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ship | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 ship | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ship | det |
| 11 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ship | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 wonder | punct |
| 13 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gull | appos |
| 14 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 ship | acl |
| 15 | along | along | ADV | _ | 14 flying | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 sails | case |
| 17 | billowing | billow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 sails | amod |
| 18 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 flying | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gull | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | gull | no gull | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | gull | the wonder ship | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | the wonder ship not said here | with billowing sails; along property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | billow | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=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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