The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 29
So the Admiral sent back to his ship for everything that was needful, and they feasted merrily under the trees.
Who acts: Admiral · What happens: send back, be, feast · To what, where: ship, trees
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Admiral), 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 | _ | 4 sent | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Admiral | det |
| 3 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 sent | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 ship | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ship | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 everything | case |
| 10 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 ship | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 needful | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 needful | cop |
| 13 | needful | needful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 everything | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 feasted | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 feasted | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 feasted | nsubj |
| 17 | feasted | feast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | conj |
| 18 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 17 feasted | advmod |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 21 trees | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 trees | det |
| 21 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 feasted | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send back | past | the Admiral | Highness's ship for everything | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to ship=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | past | needful property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | feast | past | Admiral | the trees | merrily property | vn dine-39.5 «NP 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 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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