The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 33
Then salutes were fired, the fleet weighed anchor, and very soon they reached the port.
Who acts: fleet, salutes · What happens: fire, weigh, reach · To what, where: salutes, anchor, port
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 (fleet, salutes), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 fired | advmod |
| 2 | salutes | salute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fired | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fired | aux:pass |
| 4 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 weighed | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fleet | det |
| 7 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 weighed | nsubj |
| 8 | weighed | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fired | conj |
| 9 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 weighed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reached | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 reached | cc |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 soon | advmod |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 reached | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 reached | nsubj |
| 15 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 weighed | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 port | det |
| 17 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reached | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fire | past · passive | salutes | then | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | weigh | past | the fleet | anchor | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme anchor=Value | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | salutes = salute | the port | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent port=Theme |
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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