The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 72

He gave out that he had undertaken a secret mission to a neighbouring state, and embarked on board a vessel, the winds carrying him straight to the island where the Fairy had told him he would find the real Prince.

Who acts: Rosimond, winds, Fairy · What happens: give out, undertake, neighbour, embark, carry, tell · To what, where: secret mission, vessel, Rosimond, island, real Prince · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Rosimond, winds, Fairy), 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	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 gave	compound:prt
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 undertaken	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 undertaken	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 undertaken	aux
7	undertaken	undertake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 gave	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mission	det
9	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mission	amod
10	mission	mission	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 undertaken	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 state	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 state	det
13	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 state	amod
14	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 undertaken	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 embarked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 embarked	cc
17	embarked	embark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gave	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 vessel	case
19	board	board	ADP	_	21 vessel	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 vessel	det
21	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 embarked	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 winds	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 winds	det
24	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 embarked	conj
25	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 winds	acl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 carrying	obj
27	straight	straight	ADV	_	30 island	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 island	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 island	det
30	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carrying	obl
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 told	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Fairy	det
33	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 told	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 told	aux
35	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 island	acl:relcl
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 told	iobj
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 find	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 find	aux
39	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 told	ccomp
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Prince	det
41	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 Prince	amod
42	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 find	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give out	past	Rosimond					vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	undertake	past · perfect	Rosimond	a secret mission			to a neighbouring state	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mission=Eventuality
3	neighbour	gerund						tree rules
4	embark	participle	Rosimond not said here			a vessel		tree rules
5	carry	gerund	the winds not said here	Rosimond		the island		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to island=Destination
6	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	the Fairy		Rosimond			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	find	would	Rosimond	the real Prince				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Topic

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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