The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 13
By-and-by the ship sailed into a harbour on the coast of Erin, and cast anchor there.
What happens: sail, cast · To what, where: cast anchor, harbour
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 7 ship | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ship | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ship | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 ship | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ship | det |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sailed | obl |
| 8 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 harbour | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 harbour | det |
| 11 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sailed | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 coast | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 coast | det |
| 14 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sailed | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Erin | case |
| 16 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 coast | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 anchor | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 anchor | cc |
| 19 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 anchor | amod |
| 20 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sailed | obl |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 anchor | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | cast anchor | a harbour | by the ship; on the coast of Erin | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into harbour=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | cast | participle | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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