The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 164

I desire that the golden ship shall turn to black wood, and the crew to hideous negroes; that St. Nicholas shall leave the helm and that the only cargo shall be black cats.”

Who acts: I, golden ship, Nicholas, only cargo · What happens: desire, turn, leave, be · To what, where: crew, black wood, helm

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 (I, golden ship, Nicholas, only cargo), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 desire	nsubj
2	desire	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 turn	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ship	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ship	amod
6	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turn	nsubj
7	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 turn	aux
8	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 desire	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 wood	case
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wood	amod
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turn	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 crew	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 crew	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 crew	det
15	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 desire	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 negroes	case
17	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 negroes	amod
18	negroes	negro	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 crew	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 leave	punct
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 Nicholas	nsubj
21	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Nicholas	nmod:desc
22	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 leave	nsubj
23	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 leave	aux
24	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 desire	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 helm	det
26	helm	helm	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 leave	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 cats	cc
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 black	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 cargo	det
30	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 cargo	amod
31	cargo	cargo	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 black	nsubj
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 black	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 black	cop
34	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 cats	amod
35	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 leave	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 desire	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 desire	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	desire	present	I	the crew to hideous negroes			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	turn	shall	the golden ship		black wood		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to wood=Trajectory
3	leave	shall	Nicholas St.	the helm			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helm=Theme
4	is	shall	the only cargo			black property	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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