The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 41
‘Come with us on my ship,’ he answered; and the man made no objections, but joined them; and the ship flew on, and on, and on, till suddenly the Simpleton, looking down on the road below, beheld a man aiming with a gun into the distance.
Who acts: Hallo, man, ship, Simpleton, road · What happens: come, answer, make, join, fly, look down · To what, where: ship, objections, man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Hallo, man, ship, Simpleton), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 answered | ccomp |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 us | case |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Come | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 ship | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ship | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Come | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | nsubj |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 answered | conj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 objections | det |
| 18 | objections | objection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 made | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 joined | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 joined | cc |
| 21 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 made | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 joined | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 flew | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 flew | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ship | det |
| 26 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 flew | nsubj |
| 27 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 answered | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADV | _ | 27 flew | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 on | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 on | cc |
| 31 | on | on | ADV | _ | 27 flew | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 on | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 on | cc |
| 34 | on | on | ADV | _ | 27 flew | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 looking | punct |
| 36 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 41 looking | mark |
| 37 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 41 looking | advmod |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Simpleton | det |
| 39 | Simpleton | Simpleton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 looking | nsubj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 looking | punct |
| 41 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 flew | advcl |
| 42 | down | down | ADV | _ | 41 looking | advmod |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 road | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 road | det |
| 45 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 looking | obl |
| 46 | below | below | ADV | _ | 45 road | advmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 beheld | punct |
| 48 | beheld | behold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 road | acl |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 man | det |
| 50 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 beheld | obj |
| 51 | aiming | aim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 50 man | acl |
| 52 | with | with | ADP | _ | 54 gun | case |
| 53 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 54 gun | det |
| 54 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 aiming | obl |
| 55 | into | into | ADP | _ | 57 distance | case |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 distance | det |
| 57 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 aiming | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | infinitive | my ship | with us | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ship=Location | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Hallo | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | past | the man | no objections | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent objection=Product | ||||
| 4 | join | past | the man not said here | objections = objection | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 5 | fly | past | the ship | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | look down | gerund | the Simpleton | on the road; down, suddenly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on road=Theme | ||||
| 7 | behold | participle | the road not said here | a man | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | aim | gerund | a man not said here | with a gun; into the distance | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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