Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 21

The top saw it flying high in the air, like a bird, till it would go quite out of sight.

Who acts: top, more · What happens: see, fly, go · To what, where: more, air, sight

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (top, more), 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 top	det
2	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	obj
5	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 saw	xcomp
6	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 flying	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 air	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 air	det
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flying	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bird	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 bird	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bird	det
13	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 go	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saw	conj
19	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 go	advmod
20	out	out	ADP	_	22 sight	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 sight	case
22	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the top	more		like a bird	tree rules
2	fly	gerund	more not said here		the air	high property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location
3	go	would	more		sight		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out sight=Initial_Location

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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