The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 27
Then he went and wakened the sailors, and bade them hoist the sails, for a breeze had sprung up and was blowing straight towards the harbour.
Who acts: Sigurd · What happens: go, waken, hoist, spring up, blow · To what, where: sailors, bade, breeze
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: who acts (Sigurd), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wakened | cc |
| 5 | wakened | waken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sailors | det |
| 7 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wakened | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hoist | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hoist | cc |
| 10 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hoist | obl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bade | obj |
| 12 | hoist | hoist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sails | det |
| 14 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hoist | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sprung | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 sprung | mark |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 breeze | det |
| 18 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sprung | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sprung | aux |
| 20 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 hoist | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 sprung | compound:prt |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 blowing | cc |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 blowing | aux |
| 24 | blowing | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 sprung | conj |
| 25 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 28 harbour | advmod |
| 26 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 28 harbour | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 harbour | det |
| 28 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 blowing | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Sigurd | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | waken | past | Sigurd not said here | the sailors | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sailor=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hoist | present | bade | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=Theme | |||||
| 4 | spring up | past · perfect · passive | a breeze | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | blow | past · progressive | towards the harbour | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent towards harbour=Recipient |
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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