The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 94
The boy was very sorry for her and flew down and stood beside her.
Who acts: boy · What happens: be, fly down, stand
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sorry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sorry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 sorry | advmod |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sorry | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 flew | cc |
| 9 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sorry | conj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 flew | compound:prt |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stood | cc |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 flew | conj |
| 13 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stood | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the boy | for girl; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly down | past | the boy not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | the boy not said here | beside girl | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside she=Location |
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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