The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 116
Its flags wave, the fiddlers play on the wire rigging, the anchor is thrown out and the crystal plank laid from the ship to the pier.
Who acts: flags, fiddlers, crystal plank · What happens: wave, play, rig, throw out, lay · To what, where: wire, anchor, 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 (flags, fiddlers, crystal plank), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 flags | nmod:poss |
| 2 | flags | flag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wave | nsubj |
| 3 | wave | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 play | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fiddlers | det |
| 6 | fiddlers | fiddler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 play | nsubj |
| 7 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wave | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 wire | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wire | det |
| 10 | wire | wire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 play | obl |
| 11 | rigging | rig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 play | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thrown | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 anchor | det |
| 14 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 thrown | aux:pass |
| 16 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wave | parataxis |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 thrown | compound:prt |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 laid | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 plank | det |
| 20 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 plank | amod |
| 21 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 laid | nsubj |
| 22 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 thrown | conj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 ship | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ship | det |
| 25 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 laid | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 pier | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 pier | det |
| 28 | pier | pier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 laid | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | present | gull's flags | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | play | present | the fiddlers | the wire | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | rig | gerund | the fiddlers not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | throw out | present · passive | the anchor | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | lay | participle | the crystal plank | the ship | to the pier | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from ship=Material |
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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