The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 48

Across the wide rivers, where the wild fowl rose and fled before him, and over the plains and the cold North Sea he went, over the fields of snow and the hills of ice, to a place where the world ends, and all water is frozen, and there are no men, nor beasts, nor any green grass.

Who acts: wild fowl, fowl, world, men · What happens: rise, flee, go, end, freeze, be · To what, where: beasts, wide rivers, plains, water

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 (wild fowl, fowl, world, men), 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	Across	across	ADP	_	4 rivers	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rivers	det
3	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rivers	amod
4	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rose	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rose	punct
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 rose	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fowl	det
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fowl	amod
9	fowl	fowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rose	nsubj
10	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fled	cc
12	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 rose	conj
13	before	before	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fled	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 went	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 went	cc
17	over	over	ADP	_	19 plains	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 plains	det
19	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 went	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Sea	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Sea	det
22	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Sea	amod
23	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Sea	compound
24	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 plains	conj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 went	nsubj
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 rose	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fields	punct
28	over	over	ADP	_	30 fields	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 fields	det
30	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 went	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 snow	case
32	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fields	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 hills	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 hills	det
35	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 snow	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 ice	case
37	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hills	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 place	punct
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 place	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 place	det
41	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 went	obl
42	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	45 ends	advmod
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 world	det
44	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 ends	nsubj
45	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 place	acl:relcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 frozen	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 frozen	cc
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 water	det
49	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 frozen	nsubj:pass
50	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 frozen	aux:pass
51	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 rose	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 are	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 are	cc
54	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	55 are	expl
55	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 frozen	conj
56	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	57 men	det
57	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 are	nsubj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 beasts	punct
59	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	60 beasts	cc
60	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rose	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 grass	punct
62	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	65 grass	cc
63	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	65 grass	det
64	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 grass	amod
65	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rose	obl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the wild fowl	beasts	the wide rivers		any green grass obl	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across river=Initial_Location
2	flee	past	the wild fowl not said here			before fowl		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	past	fowl		the plains and the cold North Sea		over the fields of snow and the hills of ice; to a place	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme over plain=Initial_Location over field=Destination
4	end	present	the world					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	freeze	present · passive		all water				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
6	does	present	no men		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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