The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 78
“Prepare a splendid ship in which I may continue my journey.
Who acts: you, son, my · What happens: prepare, continue, journey · To what, where: splendid ship, journey
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 (you, son, my), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prepare | punct |
| 2 | Prepare | prepare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ship | det |
| 4 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ship | amod |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Prepare | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 continue | obl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 continue | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 continue | aux |
| 10 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ship | acl:relcl |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 journey | nmod:poss |
| 12 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 continue | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prepare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare in a quote | imperative | you not said here | a splendid ship | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient | ||||
| 2 | continue in a quote | may | son | my journey | a splendid ship | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | |||
| 3 | journey in a quote | my | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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