The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 95
At this the marksman seized his gun, took aim, and fired in the direction of the world’s end, in order to awaken the sluggard.
What happens: seize, take, fire, awaken · To what, where: gun, marksman, aim, direction, sluggard
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 marksman | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 marksman | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 marksman | det |
| 4 | marksman | marksman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | obl |
| 5 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 gun | nmod:poss |
| 7 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seized | conj |
| 10 | aim | aim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fired | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fired | cc |
| 13 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 seized | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 direction | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 direction | det |
| 16 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fired | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 end | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 end | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 world | case |
| 21 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 direction | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 awaken | punct |
| 23 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 26 awaken | mark |
| 24 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 in | fixed |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 awaken | mark |
| 26 | awaken | awaken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fired | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sluggard | det |
| 28 | sluggard | sluggard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 awaken | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | sort's gun | this marksman | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | aim | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fire | participle | the direction of the world's end | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in direction=Destination | |||||
| 4 | awaken | to-infinitive | the sluggard | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sluggard=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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