The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 64
The five Simons took leave of the king, went on board, and had no sooner set sail than they were almost out of sight.
Who acts: five Simons, men · What happens: take, go, have, be · To what, where: leave, board, set sail
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 (five Simons, men), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Simons | det |
| 2 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Simons | nummod |
| 3 | Simons | Simons | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leave | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 board | case |
| 12 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 sail | det |
| 17 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 set | advmod |
| 18 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sail | amod |
| 19 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 sight | case |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sight | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 sight | cop |
| 23 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 26 sight | advmod |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 sight | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 sight | case |
| 26 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the five Simons | leave of the king | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the five Simons not said here | board | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on board=Location | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the five Simons not said here | no set sail | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | men = man | than sight; almost 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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