The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 99
Prepare me a ship of which the half-rotten timbers shall be painted black, let the sails be in rags, and the sailors infirm and sickly.
Who acts: you, sails, sailors · What happens: prepare, paint, let, be, infirm · To what, where: ship, me, rotten timbers, sails, rags
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, sails, 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 | Prepare | prepare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Prepare | obj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ship | det |
| 4 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Prepare | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 painted | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 timbers | det |
| 8 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 10 rotten | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 half | punct |
| 10 | rotten | rotten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 timbers | amod |
| 11 | timbers | timber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 painted | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 painted | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 painted | aux:pass |
| 14 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ship | acl:relcl |
| 15 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 painted | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Prepare | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sails | det |
| 19 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 let | obj |
| 20 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 rags | case |
| 22 | rags | rag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 be | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 infirm | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 infirm | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sailors | det |
| 26 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 infirm | nsubj |
| 27 | infirm | infirm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Prepare | parataxis |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sickly | cc |
| 29 | sickly | sickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 infirm | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Prepare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | imperative | you not said here | a ship | me | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary ship=Product | |||
| 2 | paint | shall · passive | the rotten timbers | of a ship; black property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | you not said here | the sails | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | infinitive | the sails not said here | rags | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rag=Location | ||||
| 5 | infirm | present | the sailors | tree rules |
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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