The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 220

It was time they did, for the captain was just going to land his cargo of cats, when a deputation of mice brought him the precious bronze ring.

Who acts: boat, mice, captain, deputation · What happens: be, do, go, land, bring · To what, where: time, cargo, precious bronze ring, 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 (boat, mice, captain, deputation), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 time	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 time	cop
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 time	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 going	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 captain	det
9	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 going	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 going	advmod
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 did	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 land	mark
14	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 going	xcomp
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 cargo	nmod:poss
16	cargo	cargo	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 land	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 cats	case
18	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 cargo	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 brought	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 brought	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 deputation	det
22	deputation	deputation	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 brought	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 mice	case
24	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 deputation	nmod
25	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 time	acl:relcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 brought	obj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ring	det
28	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 ring	amod
29	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ring	compound
30	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 brought	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	past	boat	time		tree rules
2	do	past	mice = mouse	time not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Eventuality
3	go	past · progressive	the captain			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	land	to-infinitive	the captain not said here	captain's cargo of cats		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme cargo=Destination
5	bring	past	a deputation of mice	the precious bronze ring	captain	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination ring=Theme

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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