The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 36
The wind wizard’s son did this, and the raven flew so swiftly that it reached the hut that same evening.
Who acts: son, raven, speech · What happens: do, fly, reach · To what, where: this, hut
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, raven, speech), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wizard | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wizard | compound |
| 3 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 wizard | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 did | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 flew | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 raven | det |
| 11 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flew | nsubj |
| 12 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 did | parataxis |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 swiftly | advmod |
| 14 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 12 flew | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 reached | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 reached | nsubj |
| 17 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 flew | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hut | det |
| 19 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | obj |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 evening | det |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 evening | amod |
| 22 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the wind wizard's son | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | the raven | swiftly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | speech | the hut | evening | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hut=Theme |
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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