The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 94

So they sailed away from the ‘Land of Nod,’ and in a little while Hercules and The Flea were on the shores of Asia away at the other end of the world, where the Ice Sea flows through Behring Straits into the Pacific Ocean.

Who acts: ships, Hercules, Ice Sea · What happens: sail away, be, flow · To what, where: Land, shores, Behring Straits

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ships, Hercules, Ice Sea), 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	_	3 sailed	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sailed	nsubj
3	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 sailed	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 Land	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Land	det
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 Land	punct
8	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sailed	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Nod	case
10	Nod	Nod	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Land	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Nod	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 Nod	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 little	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 little	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 little	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Nod	conj
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 shores	mark
18	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 shores	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Flea	cc
20	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Flea	det
21	Flea	Flea	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Hercules	conj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 shores	cop
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 shores	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 shores	det
25	shores	shore	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sailed	advcl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Asia	case
27	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 shores	nmod
28	away	away	ADV	_	3 sailed	advmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	32 end	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 end	det
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 end	amod
32	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sailed	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 world	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 world	det
35	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 end	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 flows	punct
37	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	41 flows	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Sea	det
39	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Sea	compound
40	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 flows	nsubj
41	flows	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sailed	conj
42	through	through	ADP	_	44 Straits	case
43	Behring	Behring	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Straits	compound
44	Straits	Strait	PROPN	Number=Plur	41 flows	obl
45	into	into	ADP	_	48 Ocean	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Ocean	det
47	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 Ocean	compound
48	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 flows	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sailed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail away	past	ships = ship	the Land of Nod	at the other end of the world	away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from land=Trajectory
2	is	past	Hercules and the Flea	the shores		of Asia	tree rules
3	flow	present	the Ice Sea	Behring Straits		into the Pacific Ocean	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through strait=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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