The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 79
Let the hull be of fine gold, the masts of silver, the sails of brocade; let the crew consist of twelve young men of noble appearance, dressed like kings.
Who acts: you, hull, crew · What happens: let, be, consist, dress · To what, where: hull, crew, noble appearance
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, hull, crew), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hull | det |
| 3 | hull | hull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obj |
| 4 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gold | case |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gold | amod |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 be | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 masts | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 masts | det |
| 10 | masts | mast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gold | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 silver | case |
| 12 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 masts | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sails | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sails | det |
| 15 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 masts | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 brocade | case |
| 17 | brocade | brocade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sails | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 crew | det |
| 21 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 let | obj |
| 22 | consist | consist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 let | xcomp |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 men | case |
| 24 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 men | nummod |
| 25 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 men | amod |
| 26 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 consist | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 appearance | case |
| 28 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 appearance | amod |
| 29 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 men | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 dressed | punct |
| 31 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 appearance | acl |
| 32 | like | like | ADP | _ | 33 kings | case |
| 33 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 dressed | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | the hull | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | infinitive | the hull not said here | of fine gold | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | you not said here | the crew | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | consist | infinitive | the crew not said here | of twelve young men of noble appearance | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | dress | participle | noble appearance not said here | like kings | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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