The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 40

He had sailed away to make war on a distant island, but the winds had been contrary, and he had been shipwrecked on unknown shores, and taken captive by a savage people.

Who acts: son, winds · What happens: sail away, make, be, shipwreck, take · To what, where: war, distant island, son, unknown shores, captive

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, winds), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sailed	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sailed	aux
3	sailed	sail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 sailed	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sailed	advcl
7	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 island	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 island	det
10	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 island	amod
11	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 contrary	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 contrary	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 winds	det
15	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 contrary	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 contrary	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 contrary	cop
18	contrary	contrary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sailed	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 shipwrecked	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 shipwrecked	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 shipwrecked	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 shipwrecked	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 shipwrecked	aux:pass
24	shipwrecked	shipwreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sailed	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 shores	case
26	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 shores	amod
27	shores	shore	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 shipwrecked	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 taken	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 taken	cc
30	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 sailed	conj
31	captive	captive	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 taken	obj
32	by	by	ADP	_	35 people	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 people	det
34	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 people	amod
35	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 taken	obl:agent
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sailed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sail away	past · perfect	son			away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	make	to-infinitive	son not said here	war	a distant island		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset war=Product
3	is	past · perfect	the winds			contrary property	tree rules
4	shipwreck	past · perfect · passive		son	unknown shores		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	take	participle	son not said here	captive			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captive=Theme

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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