The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 24
The Emperor concluded that I was drowned, and that the enemy’s fleet was approaching in a hostile manner.
Who acts: Emperor, fleet · What happens: conclude, drown, approach · To what, where: I, hostile manner
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 (Emperor, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 concluded | nsubj |
| 3 | concluded | conclude | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 drowned | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 drowned | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 drowned | aux:pass |
| 7 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 concluded | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 approaching | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 approaching | cc |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 approaching | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 enemy | det |
| 12 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fleet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 enemy | case |
| 14 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 approaching | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 approaching | aux |
| 16 | approaching | approach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 concluded | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 manner | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 manner | det |
| 19 | hostile | hostile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 manner | amod |
| 20 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 approaching | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 concluded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conclude | past | the Emperor | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | drown | past · passive | I | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | approach | past · progressive | the enemy's fleet | a hostile manner | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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