The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 50
So the father ordered a beautiful ship to be fitted up, and the young man sailed away in it.
Who acts: father, beautiful ship, young man · What happens: order, fit up, sail away · To what, where: beautiful ship, ship
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, beautiful ship, young man), 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 | _ | 4 ordered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 father | det |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | nsubj |
| 4 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ship | det |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ship | amod |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 fitted | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 fitted | aux:pass |
| 10 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ordered | xcomp |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 fitted | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sailed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sailed | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sailed | nsubj |
| 17 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ordered | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 sailed | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sailed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the father | a beautiful ship | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent ship=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fit up not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | a beautiful ship not said here | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING» | |||||
| 3 | sail away | past | the young man | ship | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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