The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 37

So he called together all the shipbuilders throughout the country, and gave them orders to build a ship which should float on the land as well as on the sea.

Who acts: brother · What happens: call together, give, build, float · To what, where: shipbuilders, orders, ship, land

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 (brother), 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 called	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	together	together	ADV	_	3 called	advmod
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 shipbuilders	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shipbuilders	det
7	shipbuilders	shipbuilder	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 called	xcomp
8	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	10 country	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 country	det
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gave	cc
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	iobj
15	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 gave	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 build	mark
17	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 gave	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 ship	det
19	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 build	obj
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 float	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 float	aux
22	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 build	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 land	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 land	det
25	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 float	obl
26	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	31 sea	cc
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 as	fixed
28	as	as	ADP	_	26 as	fixed
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 sea	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sea	det
31	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 float	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call together speech: assert	participle	brother	all shipbuilders			throughout the country	together property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	brother not said here	orders	shipbuilders = shipbuilder				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient order=Theme
3	build	to-infinitive	brother not said here	a ship					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ship=Product
4	float	should				the land			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Trajectory

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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