The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 47
Then he leaped in the air to try the Shoes of Swiftness, and they carried him more swiftly than the wind, over the warm blue sea, over the happy lands of the south, over the northern peoples who drank mare’s milk and lived in great wagons, wandering after their flocks.
Who acts: boy, shoes, northern peoples · What happens: leap, try, carry, drink, live, wonder · To what, where: air, Shoes, boy, happy lands, milk, great wagons
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 (boy, shoes, northern peoples), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 leaped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 leaped | nsubj |
| 3 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 air | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 air | det |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaped | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 try | mark |
| 8 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 leaped | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Shoes | det |
| 10 | Shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 try | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Swiftness | case |
| 12 | Swiftness | swiftness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Shoes | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 carried | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 carried | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 carried | nsubj |
| 16 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 leaped | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 carried | obj |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 swiftly | advmod |
| 19 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 16 carried | advmod |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 wind | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wind | det |
| 22 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carried | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sea | punct |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 sea | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sea | det |
| 26 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 sea | amod |
| 27 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 sea | amod |
| 28 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carried | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 lands | punct |
| 30 | over | over | ADP | _ | 33 lands | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 lands | det |
| 32 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 lands | amod |
| 33 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 carried | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 south | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 south | det |
| 36 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 lands | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 peoples | punct |
| 38 | over | over | ADP | _ | 41 peoples | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 peoples | det |
| 40 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 peoples | amod |
| 41 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 carried | obl |
| 42 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 drank | nsubj |
| 43 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 peoples | acl:relcl |
| 44 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 milk | nmod:poss |
| 45 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 44 mare | case |
| 46 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 drank | obj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 lived | cc |
| 48 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 drank | conj |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 wagons | case |
| 50 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 wagons | amod |
| 51 | wagons | wagon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 lived | obl |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 wandering | punct |
| 53 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 48 lived | advcl |
| 54 | after | after | ADP | _ | 56 flocks | case |
| 55 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 56 flocks | nmod:poss |
| 56 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 wandering | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | past | boy | the air | then | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | try | to-infinitive | boy not said here | the Shoes of Swiftness | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | shoes = shoe | boy | the happy lands of the south | than the wind; over the northern peoples; swiftly property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 4 | drink | past | the northern peoples | mare's milk | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient | ||||
| 5 | live | past | the northern peoples not said here | great wagons | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wagon=Location | ||||
| 6 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | the northern peoples not said here | after shoes's flocks | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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