The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 15

I met many new ships as I flew from Egypt; there were splendid masts on the ships.

Who acts: I, splendid masts · What happens: meet, fly, be · To what, where: many new ships, Egypt

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, splendid masts), 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 met	nsubj
2	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ships	amod
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ships	amod
5	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 met	obj
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 flew	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 flew	nsubj
8	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 met	advcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 Egypt	case
10	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 flew	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 were	punct
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 were	expl
13	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 met	conj
14	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 masts	amod
15	masts	mast	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 were	nsubj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 ships	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ships	det
18	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 masts	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	meet	past	I	many new ships		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Co-Agent
2	fly	past	I		Egypt	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from egypt=Trajectory
3	be	past	splendid masts on the ships		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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