The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 223
Immediately the genii of the ring set to work, and the old black vessel became once more the wonderful golden ship with sails of brocade; the handsome sailors ran to the silver masts and the silken ropes, and very soon they set sail for the capital.
Who acts: genii, old black vessel, handsome sailors, sailors · What happens: set, work, become, run, mast · To what, where: wonderful golden ship, 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 (genii, old black vessel, handsome sailors, sailors), 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 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 7 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 genii | det |
| 3 | genii | genii | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 set | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 ring | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ring | det |
| 6 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 genii | nmod |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 work | mark |
| 9 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 set | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 became | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 became | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 vessel | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 vessel | amod |
| 14 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 vessel | amod |
| 15 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 became | nsubj |
| 16 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 set | conj |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 more | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 became | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ship | det |
| 20 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ship | amod |
| 21 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ship | amod |
| 22 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 became | xcomp |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 sails | case |
| 24 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ship | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 brocade | case |
| 26 | brocade | brocade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sails | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 ran | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sailors | det |
| 29 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 sailors | amod |
| 30 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 ran | nsubj |
| 31 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 set | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 silver | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 silver | det |
| 34 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 masts | obl |
| 35 | masts | mast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 ran | parataxis |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 ropes | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 ropes | det |
| 38 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 ropes | amod |
| 39 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 masts | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 set | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 set | cc |
| 42 | very | very | ADV | _ | 43 soon | advmod |
| 43 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 45 set | advmod |
| 44 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 set | nsubj |
| 45 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 set | conj |
| 46 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 set | obj |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 49 capital | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 capital | det |
| 49 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 set | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | the genii of the ring | immediately property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | the genii of the ring not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | become | past | the old black vessel | the wonderful golden ship with sails of brocade | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | run | past | the handsome sailors | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | mast | present | to the silver | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | set | past | sailors = sailor | sail | for the capital; soon property | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sail=Patient for capital=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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