The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 34
The ship took a long while to build, and cost a great deal of money, and when it was launched a sudden squall rose, and it fell to pieces, and with it all the young man’s hopes of winning the princess.
Who acts: ship, hopes · What happens: take, build, cost, launch, fall, hope · To what, where: great deal, ship, princess, money
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ship, hopes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ship | det |
| 2 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 while | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 while | amod |
| 6 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 build | mark |
| 8 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cost | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cost | cc |
| 11 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 build | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 deal | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 deal | amod |
| 14 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cost | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 money | case |
| 16 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deal | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 launched | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 launched | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 launched | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 launched | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 launched | aux:pass |
| 22 | launched | launch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 rose | det |
| 24 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 rose | amod |
| 25 | squall | squall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rose | compound |
| 26 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 launched | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fell | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fell | cc |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 fell | nsubj |
| 30 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 pieces | case |
| 32 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 fell | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 hopes | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 hopes | cc |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 it | case |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 hopes | nsubj |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 it | acl:relcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 man | det |
| 39 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 man | amod |
| 40 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 hopes | nmod:poss |
| 41 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 40 man | case |
| 42 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | conj |
| 43 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 44 winning | mark |
| 44 | winning | win | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 42 hopes | acl |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 princess | det |
| 46 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 winning | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the ship | while | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | build | to-infinitive | the ship not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | cost | infinitive | the ship not said here | a great deal of money | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme deal=Value | ||||
| 4 | launch | past · passive | ship | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination rose=Theme | |||||
| 5 | fall | past | ship | to pieces | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to piece=Theme | ||||
| 6 | hope | ship | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | win | gerund | the young man's hopes not said here | the princess | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | deal | money | nom deal «act 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 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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