The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 133
In the meantime the courtier, who had run all the way from the palace, reached the ship panting and breathless, and delivered the King’s message.
Who acts: courtier · What happens: run, reach, deliver · To what, where: way, palace, ship panting, meantime, message
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (courtier), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 courtier | det |
| 5 | courtier | courtier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meantime | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 run | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 run | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 run | aux |
| 9 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 courtier | acl:relcl |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 way | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 run | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 way | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 meantime | punct |
| 17 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 panting | det |
| 19 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 panting | compound |
| 20 | panting | panting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 breathless | cc |
| 22 | breathless | breathless | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 panting | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 delivered | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 delivered | cc |
| 25 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 reached | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 King | det |
| 27 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 message | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 King | case |
| 29 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 delivered | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past · perfect | the courtier | all way | the palace | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent way=Theme from palace=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | reach | past | the ship panting and breathless | the meantime | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent panting=Theme | ||||
| 3 | deliver | past | the King's message | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/35/133/