The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 224

Ah! how merrily the sailors sang as they flew over the glassy sea!

Who acts: sailors · What happens: sing, fly · To what, where: glassy sea

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sailors), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 sang	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 merrily	advmod
4	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	7 sang	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sailors	det
6	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sang	nsubj
7	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 flew	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 flew	nsubj
10	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sang	advcl
11	over	over	ADP	_	14 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
13	glassy	glassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sea	amod
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flew	obl
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the sailors					merrily property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly	past	sailors = sailor			the glassy sea			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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