The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 36
Perhaps you also have sailed round the wide world once in a pea-shell boat.
Who acts: you · What happens: sail · To what, where: shell boat
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 sailed | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 sailed | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 sailed | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sailed | aux |
| 5 | sailed | sail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 8 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 world | amod |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sailed | obl |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 sailed | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 boat | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 boat | det |
| 13 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shell | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 pea | punct |
| 15 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 boat | compound |
| 16 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sailed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | present · perfect | you | a shell boat | round the wide world; once, perhaps property | 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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