The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 102
The minister’s son embarked in this old vessel, and thanks to favorable winds, at length reached his own country.
Who acts: son · What happens: embark, reach · To what, where: son, old vessel, thanks
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 minister | det |
| 2 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 minister | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | embarked | embark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 son | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 vessel | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 vessel | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 vessel | amod |
| 9 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 embarked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reached | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 reached | cc |
| 12 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reached | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 winds | case |
| 14 | favorable | favorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 winds | amod |
| 15 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 thanks | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 length | punct |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 length | case |
| 18 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reached | nsubj |
| 19 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 country | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 country | amod |
| 22 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reached | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embark | participle | the minister's son not said here | this old vessel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | the minister's son | thanks to favorable winds | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent country=Theme |
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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