The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 123
Presently the boy and his mother and his wife set sail for his mother’s own country, from which she had been driven so unkindly.
Who acts: boy · What happens: set, drive · To what, where: sail, mother
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 10 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 mother | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boy | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wife | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boy | conj |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 country | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 country | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 mother | case |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 country | amod |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 driven | punct |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 driven | obl |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 driven | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 driven | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 driven | aux:pass |
| 24 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 set | conj |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 unkindly | advmod |
| 26 | unkindly | unkindly | ADV | _ | 24 driven | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | the boy and boy's mother and boy's wife | sail | for boy's mother's own country; presently property | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sail=Patient for country=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | drive | past · perfect · passive | mother | unkindly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme from which=Trajectory |
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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