The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 91

Now when the horrible creatures were far in the distance, and the boy found himself on the right side of the river, he flew straight eastward, trying to seek his own country.

Who acts: horrible creatures, boy · What happens: be, find, fly, try, seek · To what, where: boy, right side, own country

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 (horrible creatures, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 distance	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 distance	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 creatures	det
4	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 creatures	amod
5	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 distance	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 distance	cop
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 distance	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 distance	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 distance	det
10	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 found	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 found	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boy	det
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 found	nsubj
15	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 distance	conj
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 found	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 side	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 side	det
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 side	amod
20	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 found	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 river	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 river	det
23	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 side	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 flew	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 flew	nsubj
26	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 found	parataxis
27	straight	straight	ADV	_	28 eastward	advmod
28	eastward	eastward	ADV	_	26 flew	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 trying	punct
30	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 flew	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 seek	mark
32	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 trying	xcomp
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 country	nmod:poss
34	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 country	amod
35	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 seek	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 distance	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the horrible creatures			now	in the distance; far property	tree rules
2	find	past	the boy	boy	the right side of the river			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
3	fly	past	boy				eastward property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	try	gerund	boy not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	seek not said to happen	to-infinitive	boy not said here	boy's own country				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=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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