The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 45
His wife set out in the new steamer and sang to the sea-king.
Who acts: wife · What happens: set out, sing · To what, where: new steamer, sea king
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 steamer | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 steamer | det |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 steamer | amod |
| 8 | steamer | steamer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sang | cc |
| 10 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 king | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 king | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 sea | punct |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sang | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | Matte's wife | the new steamer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | Matte's wife not said here | the sea king | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/24/45/