The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 54
“Spread all sail, that we may fly on the ocean like a bird in the air.”
Who acts: you, we · What happens: spread, fly · To what, where: sail, ocean
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Spread | punct |
| 2 | Spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 sail | det |
| 4 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Spread | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fly | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 fly | mark |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 fly | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 fly | aux |
| 9 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Spread | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 ocean | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ocean | det |
| 12 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fly | obl |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 bird | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bird | det |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fly | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 air | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 air | det |
| 18 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fly | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Spread | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread in a quote | imperative | you not said here | all sail | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sail=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly in a quote | may | we | the ocean | like a bird; in the air | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on ocean=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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