The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 5

And in a few days their eyes, too, opened and their wings flapped impatiently, and they longed to fly away above the waving tree-tops to mountain and the bright sun beyond.

Who acts: wings · What happens: open, flap, long, fly away, wave · To what, where: waving tree tops

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wings), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 opened	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 days	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 days	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 days	amod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 opened	obl
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eyes	nmod:poss
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 days	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 days	punct
9	too	too	ADV	_	11 opened	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 too	punct
11	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 flapped	cc
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wings	nmod:poss
14	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 flapped	nsubj
15	flapped	flap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 opened	conj
16	impatiently	impatiently	ADV	_	15 flapped	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 longed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 longed	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 longed	nsubj
20	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 opened	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 fly	mark
22	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 longed	xcomp
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 fly	advmod
24	above	above	ADP	_	29 tops	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 tops	det
26	waving	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 tops	amod
27	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tops	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 tree	punct
29	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fly	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 mountain	case
31	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fly	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 sun	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sun	det
34	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 sun	amod
35	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 mountain	conj
36	beyond	beyond	ADV	_	35 sun	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	participle			day		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	flap	participle	wings's wings			impatiently property	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	long	past	wings = wing				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	fly away not said to happen	to-infinitive	wings = wing not said here	the waving tree tops		to mountain and the bright sun; away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above top=Location
5	wave	gerund					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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