The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 7
After several voyages, I accepted an offer from Captain W. Pritchard, master of the “Antelope,” who was making a voyage to the South Sea.
Who acts: I · What happens: accept, make · To what, where: offer, Captain W., voyage
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 (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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 voyages | case |
| 2 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 voyages | amod |
| 3 | voyages | voyage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 accepted | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 voyages | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 accepted | nsubj |
| 6 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 offer | det |
| 8 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 accepted | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 W. | case |
| 10 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 W. | compound |
| 11 | W. | W. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 accepted | obl |
| 12 | Pritchard | Pritchard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 W. | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 master | punct |
| 14 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 W. | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Antelope | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Antelope | det |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Antelope | punct |
| 18 | Antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 master | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 making | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 making | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 making | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 making | aux |
| 23 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 accepted | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 voyage | det |
| 25 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 making | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Sea | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Sea | det |
| 28 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Sea | compound |
| 29 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 voyage | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past | I | a offer | Captain W. | after several voyages | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent offer=Theme from w.=Source | ||
| 2 | make | past · progressive | a voyage | to the South Sea | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voyage=Product |
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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