The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 39
And with these shoes you will fly as fleet as a bird, or a thought, over the land or over the waves of the sea, wherever the shoes know the way.
Who acts: you, shoes · What happens: fly, know, wave · To what, where: land, way, sea
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, shoes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:2033): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fly | cc |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 shoes | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 shoes | det |
| 4 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fly | obl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 fly | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 fly | aux |
| 7 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 fleet | advmod |
| 9 | fleet | fleet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fly | xcomp |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 bird | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bird | det |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fleet | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 thought | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 thought | det |
| 16 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fleet | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 land | punct |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 land | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 land | det |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fly | obl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 waves | cc |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 waves | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 waves | det |
| 24 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 land | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 sea | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sea | det |
| 27 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 waves | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 know | punct |
| 29 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 know | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 shoes | det |
| 31 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 know | nsubj |
| 32 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fly | advcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 way | det |
| 34 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 know | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | future | you | the land or the waves of the sea | with this shoes; fleet property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over land=Location | |||
| 2 | know | present | the shoes | the way | wherever property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | wave | the sea | nom wave «event transitive»: of=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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