The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 89

A new ship was built, and set with black sails, and in it the youths and maidens who were appointed for the king of the beasts embarked and set out for his country.

Who acts: youths · What happens: build, set, appoint, embark, set out · To what, where: new ship, maidens

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 (youths), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ship	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ship	amod
3	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 built	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 built	aux:pass
5	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 set	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 set	cc
8	set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 built	parataxis
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 sails	case
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sails	amod
11	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 set	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 embarked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 embarked	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 youths	nmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 youths	det
17	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 embarked	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 maidens	cc
19	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 youths	conj
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 appointed	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 appointed	aux:pass
22	appointed	appoint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 maidens	acl:relcl
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 king	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 king	det
25	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 appointed	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 beasts	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 beasts	det
28	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 king	nmod
29	embarked	embark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 built	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 set	cc
31	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 embarked	conj
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 set	compound:prt
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 country	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 country	nmod:poss
35	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 set	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	build	past · passive		a new ship		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	set	infinitive			with black sails	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with sail=Instrument
3	appoint	past · passive		maidens	for the king of the beasts	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	embark	past	the youths in ship and maidens			tree rules
5	set out	past	the youths in ship and maidens not said here		for king's country	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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