The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 40
The bird, enchanted to be free, soared up into the sky, and flew away never to return.
Who acts: bird · What happens: enchant, be, soar up, fly away, not return · To what, where: sky
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird), 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 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 enchanted | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 bird | punct |
| 4 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 free | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 free | cop |
| 7 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 enchanted | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 soared | punct |
| 9 | soared | soar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 free | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 soared | compound:prt |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 sky | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sky | det |
| 13 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 soared | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 flew | cc |
| 16 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 enchanted | conj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 flew | advmod |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 return | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 return | mark |
| 20 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 flew | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 enchanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | past | the bird | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | the bird not said here | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | soar up | participle | the bird not said here | the sky | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into sky=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | fly away | past | the bird not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not return | to-infinitive | the bird not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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