The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 5

Their father, who had until this moment prospered in all ways, suddenly lost every ship he had upon the sea, either by dint of pirates, shipwreck, or fire.

Who acts: father, ways · What happens: prosper, lose, have · To what, where: ways, ship

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, ways), 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	9 prospered	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 prospered	aux
6	until	until	ADP	_	8 moment	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 moment	det
8	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obl
9	prospered	prosper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 ways	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 ways	det
12	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 prospered	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lost	punct
14	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	15 lost	advmod
15	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 ways	acl:relcl
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 ship	det
17	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lost	obj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 ship	acl:relcl
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 sea	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sea	det
22	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dint	punct
24	either	either	CCONJ	_	26 dint	cc:preconj
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 dint	case
26	dint	dint	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 prospered	parataxis
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 pirates	case
28	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 dint	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 shipwreck	punct
30	shipwreck	shipwreck	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dint	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fire	punct
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 fire	cc
33	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 prospered	parataxis
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 prospered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	prosper	past · perfect	sons's father		all ways		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location
2	lose	participle	all ways not said here	every ship		suddenly property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Eventuality
3	have	past	father	every ship not said here		upon the sea	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient

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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