The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 59
He assembled his fleet and all the seamen, and set out.
Who acts: king · What happens: assemble, set out · To what, where: fleet
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. 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 assembled | nsubj |
| 2 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 fleet | nmod:poss |
| 4 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 assembled | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 seamen | cc |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 seamen | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 seamen | det |
| 8 | seamen | seaman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fleet | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 assembled | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 assembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past | king | king's fleet and all seamen | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fleet=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set out | infinitive | king not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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