The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 93
Then the Simurgh flew off to a distance with the great stone and dropped it.
Who acts: Simurgh · What happens: fly off, drop · To what, where: Simurgh
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simurgh), 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 | 4 flew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Simurgh | det |
| 3 | Simurgh | Simurgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 flew | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 distance | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 distance | det |
| 8 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 stone | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stone | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stone | amod |
| 12 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 distance | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dropped | cc |
| 14 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dropped | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly off | past | the Simurgh | then | to a distance with the great stone result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to distance=Result | |||
| 2 | drop | past | the Simurgh not said here | Simurgh | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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