The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 60
The ships of the line steered a straight course to Asia, the frigates sailed to Africa, the brigs to America, and the schooners to Polynesia.
Who acts: ships, frigates · What happens: steer, sail · To what, where: straight course, Asia, schooners, Africa
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, frigates), 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 ships | det |
| 2 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 steered | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 line | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 line | det |
| 5 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ships | nmod |
| 6 | steered | steer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 course | det |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 course | amod |
| 9 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 steered | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Asia | case |
| 11 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 steered | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sailed | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 frigates | det |
| 14 | frigates | frigate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sailed | nsubj |
| 15 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 steered | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Africa | case |
| 17 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sailed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 brigs | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 brigs | det |
| 20 | brigs | brig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Africa | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 America | case |
| 22 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 brigs | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 schooners | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 schooners | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 schooners | det |
| 26 | schooners | schooner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sailed | obl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 Polynesia | case |
| 28 | Polynesia | Polynesia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 schooners | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 steered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steer | past | the ships of the line | a straight course | Asia | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent course=Theme to asia=Destination | |||
| 2 | sail | past | the frigates | the schooners to Polynesia | Africa and the brigs to America | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to africa=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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