The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 122

All that day and all that night they flew, and in the morning they saw the ogre's palace lying beneath them.

Who acts: birds, palace · What happens: fly, see, lie · To what, where: palace

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, palace), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 day	det:predet
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flew	obl:unmarked
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 night	cc
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det:predet
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	conj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 flew	nsubj
9	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 morning	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 morning	det
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 flew	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ogre	det
18	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 palace	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 ogre	case
20	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obj
21	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 palace	acl
22	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lying	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	birds = bird		day		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	birds = bird	the ogre's palace	morning		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus
3	lie	gerund	the ogre's palace not said here			beneath birds = bird	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath they=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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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