The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 51
After some weeks the vessel cast anchor before a large town, and the merchant’s son went on shore.
Who acts: son · What happens: cast, go · To what, where: shore
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 (son), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 weeks | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 weeks | det |
| 3 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 anchor | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 vessel | det |
| 5 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 anchor | nsubj |
| 6 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 anchor | amod |
| 7 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 town | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 town | det |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 town | amod |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 anchor | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 merchant | det |
| 15 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 merchant | case |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 anchor | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 shore | case |
| 20 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 anchor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast | participle | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | go | past | the merchant's son | shore | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on shore=Location |
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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