The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 77
The courtier peeped into the ship, and, seeing what it was, instantly went back to the King and told him that it was a flying ship, and that it was manned by a few peasants.
Who acts: courtier, ship, few peasants · What happens: peep, see, be, go back, tell, fly · To what, where: King, flying ship, ship · 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 (courtier, ship, few peasants), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 courtier | det |
| 2 | courtier | courtier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 peeped | nsubj |
| 3 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 ship | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ship | det |
| 6 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 peeped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seeing | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 seeing | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seeing | punct |
| 10 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 peeped | advcl |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 seeing | ccomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 what | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | cop |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 15 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 peeped | parataxis |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 King | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 told | cc |
| 22 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 went | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 told | iobj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 ship | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 ship | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 ship | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 ship | det |
| 28 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 ship | amod |
| 29 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 told | ccomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 manned | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 manned | cc |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 manned | mark |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 manned | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 manned | aux:pass |
| 35 | manned | man | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 peeped | parataxis |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 peasants | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 peasants | det |
| 38 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 peasants | amod |
| 39 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 manned | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 peeped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peep | past | the courtier | into the ship | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into ship=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | the courtier not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | ship | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go back | past | to the King result; instantly property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to king=Result | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | is a | past | ship | a flying ship | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | man | past · passive | a few peasants | ship | tree rules |
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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