The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 59
The whole fleet set off and sailed far away to other parts of the world.
What happens: set off, sail · To what, where: whole fleet
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: 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 | 3 fleet | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fleet | amod |
| 3 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fleet | acl |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sailed | cc |
| 7 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | conj |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 away | advmod |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 sailed | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 parts | case |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 parts | amod |
| 12 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 away | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 parts | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fleet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | participle | the whole fleet not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sail | past | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: 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 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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