The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 88
‘Then we shall do well to fly on a little farther,’ said the Eagle, and away it went.
Who acts: we, Eagle, distance · What happens: do, fly, say, go · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, Eagle, distance), 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 | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 do | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 do | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 fly | mark |
| 8 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | advcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 farther | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 little | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 farther | obl |
| 12 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 fly | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Eagle | det |
| 17 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | shall | we | then | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | fly | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on far=Location | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Eagle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go | past | distance | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 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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