The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 1

When he said good-bye, he flew on to a tree and waved with his black wings as long as the carriage, which shone like the sun, was in sight.

Who acts: he, carriage · What happens: say, fly on, wave, shine, be · To what, where: sight · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, carriage), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 said	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 flew	advcl
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct
6	bye	bye	INTJ	_	4 good	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 flew	nsubj
9	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 flew	compound:prt
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 tree	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flew	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 waved	cc
15	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 flew	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 wings	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 wings	nmod:poss
18	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 wings	amod
19	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 waved	obl
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 long	advmod
21	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 carriage	advmod
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 carriage	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 carriage	det
24	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 waved	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 shone	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 shone	nsubj
27	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 carriage	acl:relcl
28	like	like	ADP	_	30 sun	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sun	det
30	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shone	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sight	punct
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 sight	cop
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 sight	case
34	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 waved	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	fly on	past	he		to a tree result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tree=Result
3	wave	past	he not said here		with his black wings; as the carriage	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	shine	past	the carriage		like the sun	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past		sight		tree rules

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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