The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 81
He got a ship, and everything else that he required, and sailed home for his sister.
Who acts: king · What happens: get, require, sail · To what, where: ship
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ship | det |
| 4 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 required | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 required | cc |
| 7 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 required | dislocated |
| 8 | else | else | ADV | _ | 7 everything | advmod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 required | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 required | nsubj |
| 11 | required | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sailed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sailed | cc |
| 14 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 sailed | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 sister | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sister | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sailed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | king | a ship | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | require | past | king | everything dislocated | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sail | past | king not said here | for king's sister; home 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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