The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 106
The North Wind woke her betimes next morning, and puffed himself up, and made himself so big and so strong that it was frightful to see him, and away they went, high up through the air, as if they would not stop until they had reached the very end of the world.
Who acts: North Wind, it, brothers · What happens: wake, puff up, make, be, see, go · To what, where: Wind, air, end
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (North Wind, it, brothers), 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 | 3 Wind | det |
| 2 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Wind | compound |
| 3 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 woke | nsubj |
| 4 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 morning | nmod:poss |
| 6 | betimes | betimes | ADV | _ | 8 morning | advmod |
| 7 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 morning | amod |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 woke | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 puffed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 puffed | cc |
| 11 | puffed | puff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 woke | conj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 puffed | obj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 puffed | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 woke | parataxis |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 made | obj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 big | advmod |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 made | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 strong | cc |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 strong | advmod |
| 22 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 made | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 frightful | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 frightful | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 frightful | cop |
| 26 | frightful | frightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 strong | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 see | mark |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 frightful | csubj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 see | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 went | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 went | cc |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 34 went | advmod |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 went | nsubj |
| 34 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 woke | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 up | punct |
| 36 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 up | advmod |
| 37 | up | up | ADV | _ | 34 went | advmod |
| 38 | through | through | ADP | _ | 40 air | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 air | det |
| 40 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 went | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 stop | punct |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 47 stop | mark |
| 43 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 47 stop | mark |
| 44 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 stop | nsubj |
| 45 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 stop | aux |
| 46 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 47 stop | advmod |
| 47 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 went | parataxis |
| 48 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 51 reached | mark |
| 49 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 reached | nsubj |
| 50 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 reached | aux |
| 51 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 47 stop | advcl |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 end | det |
| 53 | very | very | ADV | _ | 54 end | advmod |
| 54 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 reached | obj |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 world | case |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 world | det |
| 57 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 end | nmod |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | the North Wind | morning | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | puff up | past | the North Wind not said here | Wind | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Source | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Wind | big property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product | ||||
| 4 | is | past | it | frightful property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | Wind | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | go | past | brothers = brother | the air | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through air=Initial_Location | |||
| 7 | not stop a condition, not said to happen | would | brothers = brother | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | reach | past · perfect | brothers = brother | the end of the world | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent end=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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