The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 22
So she ordered the old boatman to steer for Squirrel Island.
Who acts: Princess, old boatman · What happens: order, steer · To what, where: old boatman
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, old boatman), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 ordered | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boatman | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boatman | amod |
| 6 | boatman | boatman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 steer | mark |
| 8 | steer | steer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ordered | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 Island | case |
| 10 | Squirrel | Squirrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Island | compound |
| 11 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 steer | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Princess | the old boatman | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent boatman=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | steer not said to happen | to-infinitive | the old boatman not said here | for Squirrel Island | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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