The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 131
It took the prince on its back and soared away to the zenith.
Who acts: It · What happens: take, soar away · To what, where: prince, back, zenith
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 back | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 back | nmod:poss |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 soared | cc |
| 9 | soared | soar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 soared | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 zenith | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 zenith | det |
| 13 | zenith | zenith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 soared | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | It | the prince | Majesty's back | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent prince=Theme on back=Destination | |||
| 2 | soar away | past | the zenith | away property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to zenith=Trajectory |
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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