The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 4
Three years after my leaving him my good master, Mr. Bates, recommended me as ship’s surgeon to the “Swallow,” on which I voyaged three years.
Who acts: my, I · What happens: leave, recommend, voyage · To what, where: father, me, Swallow
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (my, I), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 recommended | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 leaving | mark |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 leaving | nsubj |
| 5 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 years | acl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 leaving | obj |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 master | nmod:poss |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 master | amod |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaving | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Bates | punct |
| 11 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Bates | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Bates | bate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 master | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 years | punct |
| 14 | recommended | recommend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 recommended | obj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 surgeon | case |
| 17 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 surgeon | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 ship | case |
| 19 | surgeon | surgeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 recommended | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Swallow | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Swallow | det |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Swallow | punct |
| 23 | Swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 surgeon | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Swallow | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Swallow | punct |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 which | case |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 voyaged | obl |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 voyaged | nsubj |
| 29 | voyaged | voyage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 Swallow | conj |
| 30 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 years | nummod |
| 31 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 voyaged | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 recommended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | gerund | my | father | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme master=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | recommend | past | me | year | as ship's surgeon to the Swallow | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent i=Theme as surgeon=Attribute | |||
| 3 | voyage | past | I | the Swallow | year | 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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