The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 32

He shall be our ally against our enemies in the island of Blefuscu, and do his utmost to destroy their fleet, which is now preparing to invade us.

Who acts: express, fleet · What happens: be, do, destroy, prepare, invade · To what, where: ally, utmost, fleet, us

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (express, fleet), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ally	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 ally	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 ally	cop
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 ally	nmod:poss
5	ally	ally	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	against	against	ADP	_	8 enemies	case
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 enemies	nmod:poss
8	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ally	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 island	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 island	det
11	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 enemies	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Blefuscu	case
13	Blefuscu	Blefuscu	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 island	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 do	cc
16	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 ally	parataxis
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 utmost	nmod:poss
18	utmost	utmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 do	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 destroy	mark
20	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 utmost	xcomp
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 fleet	nmod:poss
22	fleet	fleet	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 destroy	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 preparing	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 preparing	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 preparing	aux
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 preparing	advmod
27	preparing	prepare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 fleet	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 invade	mark
29	invade	invade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 preparing	xcomp
30	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 invade	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ally	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	shall	express	our ally		against our enemies in the island of Blefuscu	tree rules
2	do	infinitive		express's utmost			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent utmost=Eventuality
3	destroy	to-infinitive		horses's fleet			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleet=Patient
4	prepare	present · progressive	horses's fleet		now		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
5	invade not said to happen	to-infinitive	horses's fleet not said here	us			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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