The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 46

‘Come into the ship with us,’ answered the Simpleton; and the man was only too glad to join them, and he got in; and the ship flew on, farther and farther, till again the Simpleton from his outlook saw a man on the road below, carrying on his back a basket full of bread.

Who acts: man, ship, Simpleton · What happens: come, answer, be, join, get in, fly · To what, where: ship, Simpleton, beast, man, road, basket · 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 (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	10 answered	ccomp
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 ship	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ship	det
5	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Come	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 us	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Come	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Simpleton	det
12	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 glad	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 glad	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 glad	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 glad	cop
18	only	only	ADV	_	20 glad	advmod
19	too	too	ADV	_	20 glad	advmod
20	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 answered	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 join	mark
22	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 glad	xcomp
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 join	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 got	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 got	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 got	nsubj
27	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	conj
28	in	in	ADV	_	27 got	advmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 flew	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 flew	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ship	det
32	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 flew	nsubj
33	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	parataxis
34	on	on	ADV	_	33 flew	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 farther	punct
36	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 flew	advmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 farther	cc
38	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 farther	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 saw	punct
40	till	till	ADP	_	41 again	case
41	again	again	ADV	_	47 saw	advmod
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Simpleton	det
43	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 saw	nsubj
44	from	from	ADP	_	46 outlook	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 outlook	nmod:poss
46	outlook	outlook	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 Simpleton	nmod
47	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 flew	conj
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 man	det
49	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 saw	obj
50	on	on	ADP	_	52 road	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 road	det
52	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 man	nmod
53	below	below	ADV	_	52 road	advmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 carrying	punct
55	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 saw	advcl
56	on	on	ADP	_	58 back	case
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 back	nmod:poss
58	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 carrying	obl
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 basket	det
60	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 carrying	obj
61	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 basket	amod
62	of	of	ADP	_	63 bread	case
63	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 full	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive				the ship	with us	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into ship=Initial_Location
2	answer speech: assert	past			the Simpleton			tree rules
3	is	past	the man				glad property	tree rules
4	join	to-infinitive	the man not said here	beast				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	get in	past	man					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	fly	past	the ship				far property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	see	past	the Simpleton from man's outlook	a man		the road		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
8	carry	gerund	the Simpleton from man's outlook not said here	a basket		man's back		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=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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