The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 169

And he sailed about from island to island, and from shore to shore, believing that wherever he went everybody was laughing at him, and very soon his poverty was so great that he and his crew and the poor black cats had nothing to eat but herbs and roots.

Who acts: Nicholas, everybody, poverty · What happens: sail, believe, go, laugh, be, have · To what, where: island, nothing · 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 (Nicholas, everybody, poverty), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 sailed	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sailed	nsubj
3	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	3 sailed	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 island	case
6	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sailed	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 island	case
8	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sailed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shore	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shore	cc
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 shore	case
12	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sailed	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 shore	case
14	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shore	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 believing	punct
16	believing	believe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sailed	advcl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 went	mark
18	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	20 went	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 went	nsubj
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 believing	ccomp
21	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	23 laughing	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 laughing	aux
23	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 went	ccomp
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 laughing	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 great	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 great	cc
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 soon	advmod
29	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 great	advmod
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 poverty	nmod:poss
31	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 great	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 great	cop
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 great	advmod
34	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sailed	conj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 had	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 had	nsubj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 crew	cc
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 crew	nmod:poss
39	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 he	conj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 cats	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 cats	det
42	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 cats	amod
43	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 cats	amod
44	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 he	conj
45	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 great	advcl
46	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	45 had	obj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 eat	mark
48	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 nothing	acl
49	but	but	CCONJ	_	50 herbs	cc
50	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 nothing	conj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 roots	cc
52	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 herbs	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sailed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sail	past	Nicholas		island	to island; from shore to shore; about property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from island=Trajectory
2	believe	gerund	Nicholas not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go	past	Nicholas			wherever property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	laugh	past · progressive	everybody			at Nicholas	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	Nicholas's poverty			great, soon property	tree rules
6	have	past	Nicholas	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
7	eat	to-infinitive	Nicholas not said here	nothing not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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