The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 57

Then he began to perceive that something was amiss, and, throwing off the mortal form that encumbered him, he flew out of the palace, and soared high into the air, and saw the fugitive princess in the far distance just as the swift horse carried her across the boundary of his dominions.

Who acts: head, something, mortal form, swift horse · What happens: begin, perceive, be, throw off, encumber, fly out · To what, where: mortal form, head, palace, air, fugitive princess, princess

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown 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 (head, something, mortal form, swift horse), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 began	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 perceive	mark
5	perceive	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 amiss	mark
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 amiss	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 amiss	cop
9	amiss	amiss	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 perceive	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 flew	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 flew	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 throwing	punct
13	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 flew	advcl
14	off	off	ADP	_	17 form	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 form	det
16	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 form	amod
17	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 throwing	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 encumbered	nsubj
19	encumbered	encumber	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 form	acl:relcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 encumbered	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 throwing	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 flew	nsubj
23	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	27 palace	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 palace	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 palace	det
27	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flew	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 soared	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 soared	cc
30	soared	soar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
31	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 soared	advmod
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 air	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 air	det
34	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 soared	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 saw	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 saw	cc
37	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 princess	det
39	fugitive	fugitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 princess	amod
40	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 saw	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	44 distance	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 distance	det
43	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 distance	amod
44	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 saw	obl
45	just	just	ADV	_	50 carried	advmod
46	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 carried	mark
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 horse	det
48	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 horse	compound
49	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 carried	nsubj
50	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 saw	advcl
51	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 carried	obj
52	across	across	ADP	_	54 boundary	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 boundary	det
54	boundary	boundary	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 carried	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 dominions	case
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 dominions	nmod:poss
57	dominions	dominion	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 boundary	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	head				then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	perceive	to-infinitive	head not said here						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	something					amiss property	tree rules
4	throw off	gerund	head not said here	the mortal form					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme
5	encumber	past	the mortal form		head				vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme he=Recipient
6	fly out	past	head	the palace					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location palace=Theme
7	soar	past	head not said here			the air		high property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into air=Trajectory
8	see	past	head not said here	the fugitive princess				in the far distance	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus
9	carry	past	the swift horse	princess		the boundary of head's dominions			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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