The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 3
At a sign from the king it was launched, and floated proudly and safely like a bird on the waves.
What happens: launch, float · To what, where: ship, sign, waves
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sign | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sign | det |
| 3 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 launched | obl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sign | nmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 launched | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 launched | aux:pass |
| 9 | launched | launch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 floated | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 floated | cc |
| 12 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 launched | conj |
| 13 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 12 floated | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 safely | cc |
| 15 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 13 proudly | conj |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 bird | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bird | det |
| 18 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 floated | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 waves | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 waves | det |
| 21 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 floated | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 launched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | launch | past · passive | ship | a sign from the king | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme at sign=Destination | ||||
| 2 | float | past | the waves | like a bird; proudly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wave=Trajectory |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/5/3/