English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 35
Soon after this, his master had a ship ready to sail; and as it was the custom that all his servants should have some chance for good fortune as well as himself, he called them all into the parlour and asked them what they would send out.
Who acts: master, ship, servants, Dick · What happens: have, sail, be, call, ask, send out · To what, where: ship, custom, master, parlour · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, ship, servants, Dick), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 had | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 this | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Soon | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Soon | punct |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 master | nmod:poss |
| 6 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ship | det |
| 9 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ship | amod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 sail | mark |
| 12 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ready | xcomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 custom | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 custom | cc |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 custom | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 custom | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 custom | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 custom | det |
| 19 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 have | obj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 servants | det:predet |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 servants | nmod:poss |
| 23 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 have | nsubj |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 have | aux |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 custom | acl:relcl |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 chance | det |
| 27 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 fortune | case |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 fortune | amod |
| 30 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obl |
| 31 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 34 himself | cc |
| 32 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 as | fixed |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 as | fixed |
| 34 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 have | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 called | punct |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 called | nsubj |
| 37 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | parataxis |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 called | obj |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 40 | into | into | ADP | _ | 42 parlour | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 parlour | det |
| 42 | parlour | parlour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 called | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 asked | cc |
| 44 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 called | conj |
| 45 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 asked | obj |
| 46 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 49 send | obj |
| 47 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 send | nsubj |
| 48 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 send | aux |
| 49 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 asked | xcomp |
| 50 | out | out | ADP | _ | 49 send | compound:prt |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Dick's master | a ship | soon property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient | |||
| 2 | sail | to-infinitive | a ship not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | ship | as the custom | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | should | Dick's servants | the custom | for good fortune | tree rules | |||
| 5 | call | past | Dick | master | the parlour | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic into parlour=Recipient | |||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | past | Dick not said here | master | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | send out not said to happen | would | servants = servant | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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