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The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 62

Now it happened one day, while they were sailing on the high seas, that Trusty John, sitting on the forepart of the ship, fiddling away to himself, observed three ravens in the air flying toward him.

Who acts: it, heart, Trusty, air · What happens: happen, sail, sit, fiddle away, observe, fly · To what, where: high seas, forepart, Trusty, three ravens, air

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 (it, heart, Trusty, air), 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

advmodnsubjnummodobl:unmarkedpunctmarknsubjauxparataxiscasedetamodoblpunctmarknsubjflatpunctconjcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctadvcladvmodcaseoblpunctconjnummodobjcasedetoblaclcaseoblpunctrootNowADVitPRONhappenedVERBoneNUMdayNOUN,PUNCTwhileSCONJtheyPRONwereAUXsailingVERBonADPtheDEThighADJseasNOUN,PUNCTthatSCONJTrustyPROPNJohnPROPN,PUNCTsittingVERBonADPtheDETforepartNOUNofADPtheDETshipNOUN,PUNCTfiddlingVERBawayADVtoADPhimselfPRON,PUNCTobservedVERBthreeNUMravensNOUNinADPtheDETairNOUNflyingVERBtowardADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem3 happenedadvmod
2ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 happenednsubj
3happenedhappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card5 daynummod
5daydayNOUNNumber=Sing3 happenedobl:unmarked
6,,PUNCT_10 sailingpunct
7whilewhileSCONJ_10 sailingmark
8theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs10 sailingnsubj
9werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 sailingaux
10sailingsailVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 happenedparataxis
11ononADP_14 seascase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 seasdet
13highhighADJDegree=Pos14 seasamod
14seasseaNOUNNumber=Plur10 sailingobl
15,,PUNCT_20 sittingpunct
16thatthatSCONJ_20 sittingmark
17TrustyTrustyPROPNNumber=Sing20 sittingnsubj
18JohnJohnPROPNNumber=Sing17 Trustyflat
19,,PUNCT_20 sittingpunct
20sittingsitVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part10 sailingconj
21ononADP_23 forepartcase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 forepartdet
23forepartforepartNOUNNumber=Sing20 sittingobl
24ofofADP_26 shipcase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 shipdet
26shipshipNOUNNumber=Sing23 forepartnmod
27,,PUNCT_28 fiddlingpunct
28fiddlingfiddleVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part20 sittingadvcl
29awayawayADV_28 fiddlingadvmod
30totoADP_31 himselfcase
31himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes28 fiddlingobl
32,,PUNCT_33 observedpunct
33observedobserveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 happenedconj
34threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card35 ravensnummod
35ravensravenNOUNNumber=Plur33 observedobj
36ininADP_38 aircase
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 airdet
38airairNOUNNumber=Sing33 observedobl
39flyingflyVERBVerbForm=Ger38 airacl
40towardtowardADP_41 himcase
41himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs39 flyingobl
42..PUNCT_3 happenedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1happenpastitnow; dayvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2sailpast · progressiveheartthe high seasvn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3sitgerundTrustythe forepart of the shipvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on forepart=Location
4fiddle awaygerundTrusty not said hereTrustyaway propertyvn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5observepastthree ravensthe airvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent raven=Topic
6flygerundthe air not said heretoward Trustyvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward he=Trajectory

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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