The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 99

So on they flew, scarcely feeling the ground as they went, till they flung themselves on the ground before the holes scooped out of the earth where they had all been born.

Who acts: tops, holes · What happens: fly, feel, go, fling, scoop, bear · To what, where: ground, tops, earth

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tops, holes), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 flew	advmod
2	on	on	SCONJ	_	4 flew	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 feeling	punct
6	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	7 feeling	advmod
7	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 flew	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feeling	obj
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 went	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 feeling	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flung	punct
14	till	till	SCONJ	_	16 flung	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 flung	nsubj
16	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 flung	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 ground	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ground	det
20	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flung	obl
21	before	before	SCONJ	_	24 scooped	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 holes	det
23	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 scooped	nsubj
24	scooped	scoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 flung	advcl
25	out	out	ADP	_	28 earth	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 earth	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 earth	det
28	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 scooped	obl
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 born	advmod
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 born	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 born	aux
32	all	all	ADV	_	34 born	advmod
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 born	aux:pass
34	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 earth	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	tops = top				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feel	gerund	tops = top not said here	the ground		scarcely property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Theme
3	go	past	tops = top				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fling	past	tops = top	tops = top	the ground		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme on ground=Destination
5	scoop	past	the holes		the earth		vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent out earth=Trajectory
6	bear	past · perfect · passive		tops = top		all property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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