The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 57

And now the ships must sail round the world.

Who acts: ships · What happens: sail · To what, where: world

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ships), 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	_	6 sail	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 sail	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ships	det
4	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sail	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sail	aux
6	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	round	round	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sail	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sail	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	must	the ships			the world	now		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent round world=Trajectory

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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