The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 6
An hour passed, and then the ship floated again, drawn up by Simon’s left hand, while in his right he brought a gigantic fish from the depth of the ocean for the royal table.
Who acts: hour, ship, Simon · What happens: pass, float, draw up, leave, bring · To what, where: gigantic fish, right
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 (hour, ship, Simon), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hour | det |
| 2 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 floated | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 floated | cc |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 floated | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ship | det |
| 8 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 floated | nsubj |
| 9 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 floated | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drawn | punct |
| 12 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 floated | xcomp |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 drawn | compound:prt |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 15 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Simon | case |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 hand | amod |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drawn | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 brought | punct |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 brought | mark |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 right | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 right | nmod:poss |
| 23 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brought | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 brought | nsubj |
| 25 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 floated | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 fish | det |
| 27 | gigantic | gigantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fish | amod |
| 28 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brought | obj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 depth | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 depth | det |
| 31 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brought | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 ocean | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 ocean | det |
| 34 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 depth | nmod |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 table | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 table | det |
| 37 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 table | amod |
| 38 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brought | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | a hour | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | float | past | the ship | then; again | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | draw up | participle | the ship not said here | by Simon's left hand | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | leave | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | bring | past | Simon | a gigantic fish | Simon's right | from the depth of the ocean; for the royal table | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent fish=Theme from depth=Initial_Location |
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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