The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 154
The sailors carried all the gold and silver into the ship, and then they set sail for home with Vassili on board.
Who acts: sailors, ships · What happens: carry, set · To what, where: gold, ship, sail, board
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 (sailors, ships), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sailors | det |
| 2 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 gold | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gold | det |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 silver | cc |
| 8 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gold | conj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 ship | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ship | det |
| 11 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 set | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 set | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 set | nsubj |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | conj |
| 17 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 home | case |
| 19 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sail | nmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 Vassili | case |
| 21 | Vassili | Vassili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 board | case |
| 23 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | the sailors | all gold and silver | the ship | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | |||
| 2 | set | past | ships = ship | sail | board | then | for home; with Vassili | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sail=Theme on board=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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