The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 24
And he saw a ship in the water beneath him, and in the ship sat the lion cup in the shape of the pilot.
Who acts: voice · What happens: see, sit · To what, where: ship, water, lion cup
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice), 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 | _ | 3 saw | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ship | det |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 9 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sat | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sat | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 ship | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ship | det |
| 15 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sat | obl |
| 16 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cup | det |
| 18 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cup | compound |
| 19 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sat | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 shape | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shape | det |
| 22 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sat | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 pilot | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pilot | det |
| 25 | pilot | pilot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shape | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | voice | a ship | the water | beneath Manus | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | sit | past | voice not said here | the lion cup | the ship | in the shape of the pilot | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme in ship=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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