The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 56
Five hundred carpenters and engineers were immediately set to work to prepare the engine.
What happens: set, work, prepare · To what, where: hundred carpenters, engine
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: 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 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 carpenters | nummod |
| 3 | carpenters | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 set | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 engineers | cc |
| 5 | engineers | engineer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carpenters | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 set | aux:pass |
| 7 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 8 set | advmod |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 work | mark |
| 10 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 set | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 prepare | mark |
| 12 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 work | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 engine | det |
| 14 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prepare | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · passive | hundred carpenters and engineers | immediately property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | prepare | to-infinitive | the engine | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engine=Patient |
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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