The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 48
By-and-bye, when the ship was finished, the hermit said to his young friend, ‘Now you can go and claim the king’s daughter, for hte ship will float both by land and sea.’
Who acts: ship, hermit, you · What happens: be, say, go, claim, float · To what, where: daughter, land · Speech: someone speaks here
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, hermit, you), 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 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 finished | mark |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 By | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 finished | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 bye | punct |
| 5 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 11 finished | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 finished | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 finished | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ship | det |
| 9 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 finished | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 finished | cop |
| 11 | finished | finished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hermit | det |
| 14 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 finished | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 friend | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 friend | nmod:poss |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 friend | amod |
| 19 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 friend | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
| 22 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 go | advmod |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 go | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 go | aux |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 claim | cc |
| 27 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 go | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 king | det |
| 29 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 king | case |
| 31 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 claim | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 float | punct |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 ship | case |
| 34 | hte | hte | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 ship | compound |
| 35 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 float | obl |
| 36 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 float | aux |
| 37 | float | float | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 go | conj |
| 38 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 40 land | cc:preconj |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 land | case |
| 40 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 float | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 sea | cc |
| 42 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 land | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
| 44 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the ship | finished property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the hermit | to Hermit's young friend | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to friend=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go | can | you | now | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | claim speech: other | infinitive | you not said here | the king's daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent daughter=Topic | ||||
| 5 | float | future | you not said here | land and sea | for hte ship | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Agent |
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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