The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 27

I left 1500_l_. with my wife, and fixed her in a good house; then taking leave of her and my boy and girl, with tears on both sides, I sailed on board the “Adventure.”

Who acts: I · What happens: leave, fix, take, sail · To what, where: 1500 l, person, good house, leave, Adventure

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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	1500	1500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 l	nummod
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 1500	punct
5	l	l	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obj
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 left	punct
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 left	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 wife	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fixed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fixed	cc
13	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 left	parataxis
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fixed	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 house	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 house	det
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 house	amod
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fixed	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 taking	punct
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 taking	advmod
21	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 left	advcl
22	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 taking	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 leave	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 boy	cc
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 boy	nmod:poss
27	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 leave	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 girl	cc
29	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 boy	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tears	punct
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 tears	case
32	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 taking	obl
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 sides	case
34	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	35 sides	det
35	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 tears	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 sailed	punct
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 sailed	nsubj
38	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 left	conj
39	on	on	ADP	_	43 Adventure	case
40	board	board	ADP	_	43 Adventure	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Adventure	det
42	“	"	PUNCT	_	43 Adventure	punct
43	Adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sailed	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 left	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	I	1500 l			with my wife	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent l=Recipient with wife=Theme
2	fix	past		person	a good house			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	take	gerund	I not said here	leave of person and my boy and girl		then	with tears on both sides	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme
4	sail	past	I		the Adventure			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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