The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 8
We set sail from Bristol, May 4, 1699; and our voyage at first was very prosperous.
Who acts: We, our · What happens: sail, be, voyage · To what, where: voyage, Bristol
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 (We, our), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sail | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sail | aux |
| 3 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Bristol | case |
| 5 | Bristol | Bristol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sail | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 4 | punct |
| 7 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 4 | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 Bristol | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 1699 | punct |
| 10 | 1699 | 1699 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 4 | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 voyage | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 voyage | cc |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 voyage | nmod:poss |
| 14 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sail | obl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 prosperous | case |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 prosperous | advmod |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 prosperous | cop |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 prosperous | advmod |
| 19 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sail | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | We | our voyage | Bristol | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from bristol=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | past | first, prosperous property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | voyage | our | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=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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