The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 103
Oh, how glorious it felt to be rushing through the air, wheeling first one way and then the other!
Who acts: it · What happens: feel, rush, wheel · To what, where: air, one way
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 glorious | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 glorious | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 glorious | advmod |
| 4 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 felt | nsubj |
| 6 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glorious | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 rushing | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 rushing | aux |
| 9 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 felt | advcl |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 air | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 air | det |
| 12 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rushing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wheeling | punct |
| 14 | wheeling | wheel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 rushing | conj |
| 15 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 one | advmod |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 way | nummod |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wheeling | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 other | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 other | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 other | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 glorious | conj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 glorious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | it | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | rush | to-infinitive · progressive | the air | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | wheel | gerund | one way | vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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 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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