The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 107

The next morning, at daybreak, a wonderful ship with every sail set came to anchor before the town.

Who acts: daybreak · What happens: come, anchor

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 (daybreak), 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	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 daybreak	punct
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 daybreak	case
6	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ship	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ship	det
9	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ship	amod
10	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 daybreak	appos
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 set	case
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 set	det
13	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 set	compound
14	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ship	nmod
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 anchor	mark
17	anchor	anchor	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 came	xcomp
18	before	before	ADP	_	20 town	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 town	det
20	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 anchor	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	daybreak				morning		tree rules
2	anchor	to-infinitive	daybreak not said here				before the town		vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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