The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 61
Now when he saw the first ship lying at anchor his heart beat high, and he said to himself, ‘My brother cannot surely be far off,’ and he ordered a boat and was put on shore.
Who acts: man, first ship, heart · What happens: see, lie, beat, say, not be, order · To what, where: first ship, anchor, man, boat, shore · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man, first ship, heart), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ship | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 ship | amod |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 8 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 ship | acl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 anchor | case |
| 10 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lying | obl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beat | nsubj |
| 13 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 anchor | acl:relcl |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beat | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 himself | case |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 said | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 can | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 can | punct |
| 23 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 brother | nmod:poss |
| 24 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 can | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 off | advmod |
| 27 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 30 off | advmod |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 off | cop |
| 29 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 off | advmod |
| 30 | off | off | ADV | _ | 25 can | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 off | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 off | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 ordered | cc |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 ordered | nsubj |
| 35 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 off | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 boat | det |
| 37 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 ordered | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 put | cc |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 put | aux:pass |
| 40 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 ordered | conj |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 shore | case |
| 42 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 put | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | man | the first ship | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | lie | gerund | the first ship not said here | anchor | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at anchor=Location | ||||
| 3 | beat | present | man's heart | anchor not said here | high property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location anchor=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | man | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | not is | infinitive | far, off, surely property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | order | past | man | a boat | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | ||||
| 7 | put | past · passive | man not said here | shore | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: on shore=Destination |
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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