The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 177
Several mice offered themselves for this mission and set out to find the young captain.
Who acts: Several mice · What happens: offer, set out, find · To what, where: mice, young captain
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 (Several mice), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 mice | amod |
| 2 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 offered | nsubj |
| 3 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 offered | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 mission | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 mission | det |
| 7 | mission | mission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 offered | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 set | cc |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 offered | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 set | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 find | mark |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 set | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 captain | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 captain | amod |
| 15 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | Several mice | mice = mouse | for this mission goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme for mission=Goal | |||
| 2 | set out | infinitive | Several mice not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | Several mice not said here | the young captain | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captain=Topic |
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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