The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 17

Their father received the news that one of his ships, which he had believed to be lost, had come safely into port with a rich cargo.

Who acts: father · What happens: receive, believe, lose, come · To what, where: news, ships, port

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 received	nsubj
3	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 news	det
5	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 received	obj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 one	mark
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 received	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 ships	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ships	nmod:poss
10	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 believed	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 believed	nsubj:pass
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 believed	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 believed	aux
15	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 ships	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	18 lost	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 lost	aux:pass
18	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 believed	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
21	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 received	parataxis
22	safely	safely	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
23	into	into	ADP	_	24 port	case
24	port	port	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	obl
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 cargo	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 cargo	det
27	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 cargo	amod
28	cargo	cargo	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 port	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	receive	past	girls's father	the news			vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent news=Theme one=Location
2	believe	past · perfect · passive		father's ships			tree rules
3	lose	to-infinitive · passive					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»
4	come	past · perfect			port with a rich cargo	safely property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into port=Initial_Location

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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