The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 53
But Trusty John remained behind with the steersman, and ordered the ship to push off.
Who acts: Trusty, ship · What happens: remain, order, push off · To what, where: ship
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 (Trusty, ship), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 remained | cc |
| 2 | Trusty | Trusty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Trusty | flat |
| 4 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 4 remained | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 steersman | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 steersman | det |
| 8 | steersman | steersman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remained | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ordered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ordered | cc |
| 11 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 remained | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ship | det |
| 13 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ordered | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 push | mark |
| 15 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ordered | xcomp |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 push | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | Trusty | with the steersman; behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | order | past | the ship | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent ship=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | push off not said to happen | to-infinitive | the ship not said here | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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