The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 91
In the meantime all the ship’s crew were anxiously awaiting him; the King’s dinner would soon be finished, and their comrade had not yet returned.
Who acts: crew · What happens: await, finish, not return · To what, where: King, meantime, dinner, comrade
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 (crew), 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 | 11 awaiting | obl |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 crew | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ship | det |
| 6 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crew | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 ship | case |
| 8 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 awaiting | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 awaiting | aux |
| 10 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 11 awaiting | advmod |
| 11 | awaiting | await | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 awaiting | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 finished | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 King | case |
| 17 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 finished | aux |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 finished | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 finished | aux:pass |
| 21 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 awaiting | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 returned | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 returned | cc |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 25 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 returned | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 returned | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 returned | advmod |
| 28 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 29 returned | advmod |
| 29 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 finished | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 awaiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | await | past · progressive | the ship's crew | King | the meantime | anxiously property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | finish | would · passive | the King's dinner | soon property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not return | past · perfect · passive | eyes's comrade | yet | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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