The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 66
With these words he turned his magic ship round and steered back towards the land.
Who acts: mortal · What happens: turn, steer back · To what, where: magic ship, land
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mortal), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 turned | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ship | nmod:poss |
| 7 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ship | amod |
| 8 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obj |
| 9 | round | round | ADV | _ | 5 turned | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 steered | cc |
| 11 | steered | steer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | conj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 steered | advmod |
| 13 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 15 land | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 land | det |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 steered | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | mortal | mortal's magic ship | with this words; round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ship=Theme | |||
| 2 | steer back | past | mortal not said here | the land | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent towards land=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 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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