The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 100
Up, up, he went, high amongst the stars, and no man’s eyes could follow him.
Who acts: prince, eyes · What happens: go, follow · To what, where: prince
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, eyes), 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 3 up | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Up | punct |
| 3 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 high | punct |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 went | xcomp |
| 9 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 11 stars | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stars | det |
| 11 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 high | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 follow | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 follow | cc |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 man | case |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 follow | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 follow | aux |
| 19 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 went | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 follow | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | prince | high property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | could | no man's eyes | prince | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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: «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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