The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 2

He stretched out his arms, once, twice, thrice, and the wonder-ship was ready.

Who acts: Simon, wonder ship · What happens: stretch out, be · To what, where: arms

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 (Simon, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stretched	nsubj
2	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 stretched	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 arms	nmod:poss
5	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stretched	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 once	punct
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 stretched	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thrice	punct
9	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 thrice	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thrice	punct
11	thrice	thrice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stretched	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ready	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ready	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ship	det
15	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ship	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 wonder	punct
17	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ready	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ready	cop
19	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thrice	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch out	past	Simon	Simon's arms				once property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
2	is	past	the wonder ship					ready property	tree rules

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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