The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 44
So he called together all the shipbuilders in the kingdom, and gave orders that a new ship should be built.
Who acts: man, shipbuilders · What happens: call together, give, build · To what, where: shipbuilders, orders, new ship
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 (man, shipbuilders), 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 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 kingdom | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kingdom | det |
| 10 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shipbuilders | nmod |
| 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 | 7 shipbuilders | acl:relcl |
| 14 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gave | obj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 built | mark |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 ship | det |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ship | amod |
| 18 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 built | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 built | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 built | aux:pass |
| 21 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 gave | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call together speech: assert | participle | man | all shipbuilders in the kingdom | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | give | past | all shipbuilders in the kingdom not said here | orders | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 3 | build | should · passive | a new ship | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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