The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 111
Go at once and invite the captain of the ship to come to the palace.”
Who acts: you, captain · What happens: go, invite, come · To what, where: captain, palace
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 (you, captain), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 once | case |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Go | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 invite | cc |
| 5 | invite | invite | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 captain | det |
| 7 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 invite | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ship | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ship | det |
| 10 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 captain | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 come | mark |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 invite | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location | |||||
| 2 | invite | infinitive | you not said here | the captain of the ship | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent captain=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | the captain of the ship not said here | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=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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