The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 82
And immediately a ship appeared upon the sea which resembled in every particular the description given by the gardener’s son, and, stepping on board, he continued his journey.
Who acts: ship, sea, son · What happens: appear, resemble, give, step, continue, journey · To what, where: sea, particular description, board, 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 (ship, sea, son), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 appeared | cc |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 5 appeared | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ship | det |
| 4 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | nsubj |
| 5 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | obl |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 resembled | nsubj |
| 10 | resembled | resemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sea | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 description | case |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 description | det |
| 13 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 description | amod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 description | det |
| 15 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 resembled | obl |
| 16 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 description | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 son | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 gardener | det |
| 19 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 gardener | case |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 given | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 continued | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 continued | cc |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stepping | punct |
| 25 | stepping | step | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 continued | advcl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 board | case |
| 27 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stepping | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stepping | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 continued | nsubj |
| 30 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appeared | parataxis |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 journey | nmod:poss |
| 32 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 continued | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | a ship | the sea | immediately property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon sea=Location | |||
| 2 | resemble | past | the sea | every particular description | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | participle | every particular description not said here | by the gardener's son | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | step | gerund | son not said here | board | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on board=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | continue | past | son | son's journey | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | ||||
| 6 | journey | son | 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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