The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 77
While he was going quickly through the air he fell in with the North Wind.
Who acts: thing · What happens: go, fall in · To what, where: air
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 going | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 going | advmod |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 air | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 air | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 fell | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 Wind | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Wind | det |
| 14 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Wind | compound |
| 15 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | thing | the air | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through air=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | fall in | past | thing | the air not said here | with the North Wind | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient air=Result |
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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