The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 3
I returned immediately to the city for help, and after a huge amount of labor I managed to get my boat to the royal port of Blefuscu, where a great crowd of people appeared, full of wonder at sight of so prodigious a vessel.
Who acts: I, great crowd · What happens: return, manage, get, appear, amount · To what, where: boat, labor
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, great crowd), 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 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 2 returned | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 returned | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 help | case |
| 8 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 city | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 managed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 managed | cc |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 amount | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 amount | det |
| 13 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 amount | amod |
| 14 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 managed | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 labor | case |
| 16 | labor | labor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 amount | nmod |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 managed | nsubj |
| 18 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 returned | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 get | mark |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 managed | xcomp |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 boat | nmod:poss |
| 22 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 get | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 port | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 port | det |
| 25 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 port | amod |
| 26 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 get | xcomp |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Blefuscu | case |
| 28 | Blefuscu | Blefuscu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 port | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 appeared | punct |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 appeared | advmod |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 crowd | det |
| 32 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 crowd | amod |
| 33 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 appeared | nsubj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 people | case |
| 35 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 crowd | nmod |
| 36 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 Blefuscu | acl:relcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 full | punct |
| 38 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 port | parataxis |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 wonder | case |
| 40 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 full | obl |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 sight | case |
| 42 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 full | obl |
| 43 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 45 prodigious | mark |
| 44 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 prodigious | advmod |
| 45 | prodigious | prodigious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 sight | conj |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 vessel | det |
| 47 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 prodigious | nsubj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | I | to the city for help result; immediately property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to city=Result | ||||
| 2 | manage | past | I | after a huge amount of labor | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | I not said here | my boat | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boat=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | appear | past | a great crowd of people | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | amount | labor | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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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