The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 1
It was not long before I communicated to his Majesty the plan I formed for seizing the enemy’s whole fleet.
Who acts: It, I · What happens: not be, communicate, form, seize · To what, where: plan, Majesty, whole fleet
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 long | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 communicated | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 communicated | nsubj |
| 7 | communicated | communicate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Majesty | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 communicated | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 plan | det |
| 12 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 communicated | obj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 formed | nsubj |
| 14 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 plan | acl:relcl |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 seizing | mark |
| 16 | seizing | seize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 formed | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 enemy | det |
| 18 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fleet | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 enemy | case |
| 20 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fleet | amod |
| 21 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seizing | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | It | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | communicate | past | I | the plan | his Majesty | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent plan=Topic to majesty=Recipient | |||
| 3 | form | past | I | the plan not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plan=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seize | gerund | I not said here | the enemy's whole fleet | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleet=Theme |
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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