The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 51

The prince gave orders to set sail at once, and after a fine voyage landed in his own country, where his parents and his only sister received him with the greatest joy and affection.

Who acts: prince, parents · What happens: give, set, land, receive · To what, where: orders, sail, own country, Ring

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, parents), 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	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 set	mark
6	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gave	advcl
7	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 set	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 landed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 landed	cc
12	after	after	ADP	_	15 voyage	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 voyage	det
14	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 voyage	amod
15	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 landed	obl
16	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	parataxis
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 country	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 country	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 country	amod
20	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 landed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 received	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 received	advmod
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 parents	nmod:poss
24	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 received	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sister	cc
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 sister	nmod:poss
27	only	only	ADV	_	28 sister	advmod
28	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 parents	conj
29	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 landed	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 received	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 joy	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 joy	det
33	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 joy	amod
34	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 received	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 affection	cc
36	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 joy	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the prince	orders				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
2	set	to-infinitive	the prince not said here	sail				vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sail=Theme at once=Destination
3	land	past			Ring's own country	after a fine voyage		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in country=Destination
4	receive	past	Ring's parents and Ring's sister	Ring			with the greatest joy and affection	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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