The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 83

No one knew what the ship was, or whence it came; but the king declared that he would not have the boy burned before its arrival, there would always be time enough for that.

Who acts: one, ship, king, boy · What happens: know, be, come, declare, not have, burn · To what, where: arrival · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, ship, king, boy), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 knew	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ship	det
6	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 what	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 what	cop
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
10	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	12 came	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 declared	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 declared	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 declared	nsubj
17	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 have	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 have	advmod
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 enough	csubj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 boy	det
24	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 burned	nsubj
25	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 have	ccomp
26	before	before	ADP	_	28 arrival	case
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 arrival	nmod:poss
28	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 burned	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 be	punct
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	33 be	expl
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 be	aux
32	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	33 be	advmod
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 enough	cop
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 be	nsubj
35	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 declared	ccomp
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 that	case
37	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 enough	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	no one			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	the ship			tree rules
3	come	past	ship		whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	declare speech: other	past	the king			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	not have	would	king			tree rules
6	burn	past	the boy	ship's arrival		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before arrival=Location
7	is	infinitive			for that; enough property	tree rules
8	arrive		ship			nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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