The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 98
And after flying some distance she brought him to his journey’s end, took leave of him, and flew away back.
Who acts: lightning, Prince · What happens: fly, bring, take, fly away, journey · To what, where: distance, Prince, end, leave
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lightning, Prince), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 3 flying | mark |
| 3 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 took | advcl |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 distance | det |
| 5 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flying | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 brought | nsubj |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 distance | acl:relcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 brought | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 end | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 journey | nmod:poss |
| 11 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 end | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 journey | case |
| 13 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 flying | punct |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 leave | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 flew | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 flew | cc |
| 21 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 flew | advmod |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 flew | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | gerund | some distance | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bring | past | lightning | Prince | to Prince's journey's end | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to end=Destination | |||
| 3 | take | past | leave of Prince | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fly away | past | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | journey | Prince | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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