The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 131
And the wonder-ship arrived at the Island of Busan just as all the knights and soldiers who had escorted the princess were being led out to execution.
Who acts: wonder ship, soldiers · What happens: arrive, escort, lead out · To what, where: Island, princess, knights, execution
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 (wonder ship, soldiers), 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 | _ | 6 arrived | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ship | det |
| 3 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ship | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arrived | nsubj |
| 6 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Island | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Island | det |
| 9 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 arrived | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Busan | case |
| 11 | Busan | Busan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Island | nmod |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 knights | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 knights | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 knights | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 knights | det |
| 16 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 led | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 soldiers | cc |
| 18 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 knights | conj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 escorted | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 escorted | aux |
| 21 | escorted | escort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 soldiers | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 princess | det |
| 23 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 escorted | obj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 led | aux:pass |
| 25 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 led | aux:pass |
| 26 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 arrived | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 led | compound:prt |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 execution | case |
| 29 | execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 led | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the wonder ship | the Island of Busan | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | escort | past · perfect | soldiers | the princess | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lead out | past · passive | all knights and soldiers | execution | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to execution=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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