The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 11

Then, fastening a hook to the hole at the prow of each ship, I tied all the cords together at the end.

Who acts: I · What happens: fasten, tie · To what, where: hook, cords, end

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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 fastening	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fastening	punct
3	fastening	fasten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 tied	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hook	det
5	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fastening	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 hole	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hole	det
8	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fastening	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 prow	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 prow	det
11	prow	prow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hole	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 ship	case
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 ship	det
14	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 prow	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fastening	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 tied	nsubj
17	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 cords	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cords	det
20	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tied	obj
21	together	together	ADV	_	17 tied	advmod
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 end	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 end	det
24	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tied	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fasten	gerund	I not said here	a hook			then	to the hole at the prow of each ship	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hook=Patient to hole=Co-Patient
2	tie	past	I	all cords			at the end	together property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=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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