The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 17
Having thus prepared all things as well as I was able, I set sail.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, prepare, be, set · To what, where: prepared things, sail
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter V. 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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 able | csubj |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 prepared | advmod |
| 3 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 things | amod |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 things | det |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Having | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 well | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 able | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 able | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 able | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 able | cop |
| 11 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 set | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 set | nsubj |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 able | conj |
| 15 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | all prepared things | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | |||||
| 2 | prepare | participle | thus property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | I | able, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | set | present | I | sail | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sail=Result |
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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