The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 203
But by that time our three mice had set sail with their prize.
What happens: set · To what, where: three mice
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: 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 | _ | 9 set | cc |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obl |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mice | nmod:poss |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 mice | nummod |
| 7 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 set | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 set | aux |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 prize | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 prize | nmod:poss |
| 13 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · perfect · passive | our three mice | time | with mice's prize | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme sail=Destination |
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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