The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 90

But the Shoes of Swiftness flew too fast for them, and at last their cries and the rattle of their wings died away as he crossed the great river that runs round the world.

Who acts: Shoes, last cries, boy, great river, sisters, wings · What happens: fly, die away, cross, run, cry, rattle · To what, where: great river, world

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 (Shoes, last cries, boy, great river), 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	_	6 flew	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Shoes	det
3	Shoes	Shoe	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 flew	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Swiftness	case
5	Swiftness	Swiftness	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Shoes	nmod
6	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 fast	advmod
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 flew	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 flew	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 died	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 died	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 cries	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cries	amod
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 cries	nmod:poss
16	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 died	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 rattle	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rattle	det
19	rattle	rattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cries	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 wings	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wings	nmod:poss
22	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rattle	nmod
23	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flew	conj
24	away	away	ADV	_	23 died	advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 crossed	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 crossed	nsubj
27	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 died	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 river	det
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 river	amod
30	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 crossed	obj
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 runs	nsubj
32	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 river	acl:relcl
33	round	round	ADP	_	35 world	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 world	det
35	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 runs	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the Shoes of Swiftness			for sisters = sister; fast property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	die away	past	sisters's last cries and the rattle of sisters's wings			away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	cross	past	boy	the great river			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient
4	run	present	the great river		the world		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round world=Trajectory
5	cry		sisters = sister				nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
6	rattle		sisters's wings				nom rattle «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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