The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 89
He began by setting sail in a favourable wind, but his bad luck followed him even on the sea.
Who acts: sight, bad luck · What happens: begin, set, follow · To what, where: sail, favourable wind, sight, sea
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (sight, bad luck), 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 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 4 setting | mark |
| 4 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 began | advcl |
| 5 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 setting | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 wind | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wind | det |
| 8 | favourable | favourable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wind | amod |
| 9 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 setting | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 followed | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 followed | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 luck | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 luck | amod |
| 14 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 followed | nsubj |
| 15 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 began | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 followed | obj |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 sea | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 sea | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sea | det |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 followed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | sight | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | set | gerund | sight not said here | sail | a favourable wind | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sail=Theme in wind=Destination | |||
| 3 | follow | past | sight's bad luck | sight | the sea | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme on sea=Trajectory |
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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