The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 14
And the king’s ships sailed very fast, and soon caught up the little vessel, and the sailors all shouted for joy.
Who acts: ships, sailors · What happens: sail, catch up, shout · To what, where: little vessel
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ships, sailors), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sailed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ships | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sailed | nsubj |
| 6 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 fast | advmod |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 sailed | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 caught | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 caught | cc |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 caught | advmod |
| 12 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sailed | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 caught | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 vessel | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 vessel | amod |
| 16 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 caught | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shouted | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 shouted | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sailors | det |
| 20 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 shouted | nsubj |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 shouted | advmod |
| 22 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sailed | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 joy | case |
| 24 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shouted | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | the king's ships | fast property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | catch up | participle | the king's ships not said here | the little vessel | soon property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme | |||
| 3 | shout speech: express | past | the sailors | for joy; all property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for joy=Recipient |
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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