The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 96
And a moment later the swift runner reappeared, and, stepping on board the ship, handed the healing water to the Simpleton.
Who acts: swift runner · What happens: reappear, step, hand · To what, where: ship, healing water, Simpleton
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 (swift runner), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 reappeared | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 later | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 reappeared | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 runner | det |
| 6 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 runner | amod |
| 7 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reappeared | nsubj |
| 8 | reappeared | reappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 handed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 handed | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 and | punct |
| 12 | stepping | step | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 handed | advcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 ship | case |
| 14 | board | board | ADP | _ | 16 ship | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ship | det |
| 16 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stepping | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stepping | punct |
| 18 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 reappeared | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 water | det |
| 20 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 water | compound |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 handed | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Simpleton | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Simpleton | det |
| 24 | Simpleton | Simpleton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 handed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reappear | past | the swift runner | late property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | step | gerund | the ship | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ship=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | hand | past | the swift runner not said here | the healing water | the Simpleton | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme to simpleton=Destination |
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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