The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 135
Up and up flew the Simurgh, till earth looked like an egg resting on an ocean.
Who acts: earth, egg · What happens: fly, look, rest · To what, where: Simurgh, ocean
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 (earth, egg), 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 flew | cc |
| 3 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Simurgh | det |
| 6 | Simurgh | Simurgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 looked | mark |
| 9 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 egg | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 egg | det |
| 13 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 14 | resting | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 egg | acl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 ocean | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 ocean | det |
| 17 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 resting | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the Simurgh | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location simurgh=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | past | earth | like a egg | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | rest | gerund | a egg not said here | a ocean | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ocean=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 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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