The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 8
Time went past, and the King, growing tired of living alone, fitted out his ship and sailed out to sea.
Who acts: King · What happens: go past, grow, live, fit out, sail out · To what, where: ship, sea
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | past | past | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fitted | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fitted | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 fitted | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 growing | punct |
| 9 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 King | acl |
| 10 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 growing | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 living | mark |
| 12 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 tired | advcl |
| 13 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 12 living | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fitted | punct |
| 15 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 went | parataxis |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 fitted | compound:prt |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 ship | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fitted | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sailed | cc |
| 20 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fitted | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 sailed | compound:prt |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 sea | case |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sailed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go past | past | time | past property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | the King not said here | tired property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live | gerund | the King not said here | alone property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fit out | participle | the King | Hermod's ship | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient | ||||
| 5 | sail out | past | the King not said here | sea | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to sea=Trajectory |
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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