The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 143
But, presently, the captain of the golden ship found it necessary to take a long voyage, and after embracing his wife tenderly he embarked.
Who acts: captain · What happens: find, take, embrace, embark · To what, where: ship, long voyage, wife · 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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 captain | punct |
| 3 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 6 captain | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 presently | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 captain | det |
| 6 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ship | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ship | det |
| 9 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ship | amod |
| 10 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 captain | nmod |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | obj |
| 13 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 found | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 take | mark |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 necessary | csubj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 voyage | det |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 voyage | amod |
| 18 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 embarked | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 embarked | cc |
| 21 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 22 embracing | mark |
| 22 | embracing | embrace | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 embarked | advcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 wife | nmod:poss |
| 24 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 embracing | obj |
| 25 | tenderly | tenderly | ADV | _ | 22 embracing | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 embarked | nsubj |
| 27 | embarked | embark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the captain of the golden ship | ship | necessary property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | a long voyage | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voyage=Theme | |||||
| 3 | embrace | gerund | captain not said here | captain's wife | tenderly property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | embark | past | captain | 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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