The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 42
When he blows at the small end the seas shall be covered with ships.
Who acts: youth · What happens: blow, cover · To what, where: small end, seas
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 blows | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 blows | nsubj |
| 3 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 covered | advcl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 end | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 end | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 end | amod |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blows | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 seas | det |
| 9 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 covered | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 covered | aux:pass |
| 12 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 ships | case |
| 14 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 covered | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | present | youth | at the small end | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cover | shall · passive | the seas | with ships | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with ship=Theme |
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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