The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 193
So the three mice made themselves a boat and set sail for the magician’s country.
Who acts: three mice · What happens: make, set · To what, where: mice, sail
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 (three 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 made | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mice | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 mice | nummod |
| 4 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 made | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 boat | det |
| 8 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 11 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 country | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 magician | det |
| 14 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 country | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 magician | case |
| 16 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the three mice | mice = mouse | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Beneficiary boat=Product | ||||
| 2 | set | past | the three mice not said here | sail | for the magician's country | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sail=Patient for country=Beneficiary |
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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