The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 105
And in an instant the ship went away as swiftly as any bird in the air till it got just below the King’s palace, and there it stood still.
Who acts: ship · What happens: go away, get, stand · To what, where: instant, palace
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ship), 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 | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 instant | case |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 instant | det |
| 4 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ship | det |
| 6 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 swiftly | advmod |
| 10 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 bird | case |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 bird | det |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 air | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 air | det |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 17 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 got | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 got | nsubj |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | advcl |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 palace | advmod |
| 21 | below | below | ADP | _ | 25 palace | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 King | det |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 palace | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 King | case |
| 25 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 got | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 stood | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 stood | cc |
| 28 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 30 stood | expl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 stood | nsubj |
| 30 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 31 | still | still | ADV | _ | 30 stood | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | the ship | a instant | as any bird; in the air; away, swiftly property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in instant=Location | |||
| 2 | get | past | ship | the King's palace | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | ship | there | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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