The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 109

“What strange ship is this,” he cried, “that has a golden hull, silver masts, and silken sails, and who are the young men like princes who man it?

Who acts: strange ship, that, young men · What happens: be, cry, have · To what, where: silken sails, golden hull · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (strange ship, that, young men), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 cried	nsubj:outer
3	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ship	amod
4	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 What	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 What	cop
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 What	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 has	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 has	punct
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 has	nsubj
14	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	ccomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hull	det
16	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hull	amod
17	hull	hull	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 has	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 masts	punct
19	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 masts	compound
20	masts	mast	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hull	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sails	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sails	cc
23	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sails	amod
24	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cried	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 who	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 who	cc
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 cried	parataxis
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 who	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 men	det
30	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 men	amod
31	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 who	nsubj
32	like	like	ADP	_	33 princes	case
33	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 men	nmod
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 princes	acl:relcl
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 who	nsubj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 who	nsubj
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	strange ship		tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past		silken sails	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	present	that	a golden hull and silver masts	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hull=Patient
4	is a in a quote	present	the young men like princes		tree rules

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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