The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 3

For three days and three nights Paul and the griffin flew upwards, and on the fourth morning it touched the ground just outside the city where Paul’s friends had gone to live.

Who acts: Paul, cupful, city · What happens: fly, touch, go, live · To what, where: ground

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paul, cupful, city), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 flew	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 nights	cc
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 nights	nummod
6	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 days	conj
7	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 flew	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 griffin	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 griffin	det
10	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Paul	conj
11	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	11 flew	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 touched	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 touched	cc
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 morning	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 morning	det
17	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 morning	amod
18	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 touched	obl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 touched	nsubj
20	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 flew	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ground	det
22	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 touched	obj
23	just	just	ADV	_	26 city	advmod
24	outside	outside	ADP	_	26 city	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 city	det
26	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gone	nsubj
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 gone	advmod
28	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 friends	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 Paul	case
30	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 gone	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 gone	aux
32	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 touched	parataxis
33	to	to	PART	_	34 live	mark
34	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 gone	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	Paul and the griffin		day	upwards property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	touch	past	cupful	the ground	morning		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme
3	go	past · perfect	the city				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	live	to-infinitive	the city not said here				vn exist-47.1-1 «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: «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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