The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 54
On which, taking leave of their Majesties and other great personages at court, they sailed with a fair wind for England, whither we must now attend them.
Who acts: kittens, we · What happens: take, sail, attend · To what, where: taking leave, kittens
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kittens, we), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 leave | case |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 leave | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 taking | punct |
| 4 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 leave | amod |
| 5 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sailed | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Majesties | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Majesties | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Majesties | majesty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 leave | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 personages | cc |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 personages | amod |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 personages | amod |
| 12 | personages | personage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Majesties | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 court | case |
| 14 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 personages | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 leave | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sailed | nsubj |
| 17 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 wind | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 wind | det |
| 20 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wind | amod |
| 21 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sailed | obl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 England | case |
| 23 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 wind | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 attend | punct |
| 25 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 attend | advmod |
| 26 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 attend | nsubj |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 attend | aux |
| 28 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 attend | advmod |
| 29 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sailed | conj |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 attend | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | sail | past | kittens = kitten | taking leave of kittens's Majesties and other great personages at court | with a fair wind for England | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | attend | must | we | kittens = kitten | now | whither property | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Goal |
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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