The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 11
Sigurd now prepared to return home with his wife and child, and went on board ship to go by sea.
What happens: prepare, return, go · To what, where: board ship
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). 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 | Sigurd | sigurd | ADV | _ | 3 prepared | advmod |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 prepared | advmod |
| 3 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 return | mark |
| 5 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 prepared | xcomp |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 return | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 wife | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 return | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 child | cc |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wife | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 prepared | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 ship | case |
| 16 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ship | compound |
| 17 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 went | advcl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 sea | case |
| 21 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | participle | now | sigurd property | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | with Sigurd's wife and child; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | board ship | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ship=Location | |||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | by sea | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by sea=Location |
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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