The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 68

But the boy flew south between sea and land, keeping the land always on his left hand, till he saw a beautiful island crowned with flowering trees.

Who acts: boy · What happens: fly, keep, see, crown, flower · To what, where: sea, land, left hand, beautiful island

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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 flew	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	south	south	ADV	_	4 flew	advmod
6	between	between	ADP	_	7 sea	case
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 land	cc
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sea	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 keeping	punct
11	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 flew	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 land	det
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 keeping	obj
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 keeping	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 hand	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hand	nmod:poss
17	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hand	amod
18	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 keeping	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
20	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 saw	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 island	det
24	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 island	amod
25	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 saw	obj
26	crowned	crown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 island	acl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 trees	case
28	flowering	flower	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 trees	amod
29	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 crowned	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the boy		sea and land	south property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent between sea=Location
2	keep	gerund	the boy not said here	the land	boy's left hand	always property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent land=Theme on hand=Location
3	see	past	boy	a beautiful island			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer island=Stimulus
4	crown	participle		a beautiful island not said here		with flowering trees	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tree=Theme
5	flower	gerund					vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «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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