The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 151

And now the twelve ships which the whale had thrown up came sailing along and anchored close by.

Who acts: whale, twelve ships · What happens: throw up, come, sail, anchor · To what, where: twelve ships

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whale, twelve ships), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg641:336): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 came	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ships	det
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 ships	nummod
5	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 came	nsubj
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 thrown	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 whale	det
8	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thrown	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thrown	aux
10	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 ships	acl:relcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 thrown	compound:prt
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 came	xcomp
14	along	along	ADV	_	13 sailing	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 anchored	cc
16	anchored	anchor	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
17	close	close	ADV	_	16 anchored	advmod
18	by	by	ADV	_	17 close	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	throw up	past · perfect	the whale	the twelve ships			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent which=Theme
2	come	past	the twelve ships		now		tree rules
3	sail	gerund	the twelve ships not said here			along property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	anchor	past	the twelve ships not said here			close property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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