The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 35

When he reached the boat he found the dove perched on one of the masts, and at a signal from her he put to sea; the wind was behind them and they soon lost sight of land.

Who acts: man, wind, doves · What happens: reach, find, perch, put, be, lose · To what, where: boat, dove, signal, sight, land

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, wind, doves), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boat	det
5	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dove	det
9	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obj
10	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 dove	acl
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 one	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 perched	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 masts	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 masts	det
15	masts	mast	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 put	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 signal	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 signal	det
20	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obl
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 signal	nmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 put	nsubj
24	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 sea	case
26	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 them	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wind	det
29	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 them	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 them	cop
31	behind	behind	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 lost	cc
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 lost	nsubj
35	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 lost	advmod
36	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	conj
37	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lost	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 land	case
39	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sight	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	man	the boat			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent boat=Theme
2	find	past	man	the dove			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Topic
3	perch	participle		the dove not said here		on one of the masts	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on one=Location
4	put	past	man		a signal from daughter	to sea	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at signal=Destination
5	is	past	the wind			behind doves = dove	tree rules
6	lose	past	doves = dove	sight of land		soon property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality
7	sight			land			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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