The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 130
This young man returned in a vessel which I fitted out for him, an unseaworthy ship with a black battered hull, and the sailors were infirm and crippled.”
Who acts: young man, sailors · What happens: return, fit out, batter, be · To what, where: young man, vessel, unseaworthy ship
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 (young man, sailors), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fitted | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 man | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 vessel | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 vessel | det |
| 7 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 fitted | nsubj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 fitted | nsubj |
| 10 | fitted | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 fitted | compound:prt |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fitted | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ship | punct |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 ship | det |
| 16 | unseaworthy | unseaworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ship | amod |
| 17 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fitted | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 hull | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 hull | det |
| 20 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hull | amod |
| 21 | battered | batter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 hull | amod |
| 22 | hull | hull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ship | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 infirm | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 infirm | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sailors | det |
| 26 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 infirm | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 infirm | cop |
| 28 | infirm | infirm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fitted | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 crippled | cc |
| 30 | crippled | crippled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 infirm | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 infirm | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 fitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | participle | this young man not said here | a vessel | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fit out | past | this young man | a unseaworthy ship with a black battered hull | for sire | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | batter | participle | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | the sailors | infirm property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | the sailors not said here | 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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