The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 40
Then he took a few of the gold things in his apron, went ashore, and proceeded straight to the palace.
Who acts: John · What happens: take, go, proceed · To what, where: few, apron, palace
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 few | det |
| 5 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 things | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 things | det |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 things | compound |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 few | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 apron | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 apron | nmod:poss |
| 12 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 proceeded | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 proceeded | cc |
| 18 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 19 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 22 palace | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 palace | det |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 proceeded | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | John | a few of the gold things | John's apron | then | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent few=Value in apron=Location | ||
| 2 | go | past | John not said here | ashore property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | proceed | past | John not said here | the palace | 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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