English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 78
The captain then took leave of the royal party, and set sail with a fair wind for England, and after a happy voyage arrived safe in London.
Who acts: captain, happy voyage · What happens: take, arrive · To what, where: leave
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 (captain, happy voyage), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 captain | det |
| 2 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 party | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 party | det |
| 8 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 party | amod |
| 9 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leave | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sail | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sail | cc |
| 12 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sail | amod |
| 13 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 wind | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wind | det |
| 16 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wind | amod |
| 17 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sail | nmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 England | case |
| 19 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 wind | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 arrived | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 arrived | cc |
| 22 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 26 arrived | mark |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 voyage | det |
| 24 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 voyage | amod |
| 25 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 arrived | nsubj |
| 26 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 27 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 arrived | xcomp |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 London | case |
| 29 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 safe | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the captain | leave of the royal party | then | set sail with a fair wind for England obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||
| 2 | arrive | past | a happy voyage | safe property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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