The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 56
Then the reindeer flew over the ground, through the great forest, as fast as he could.
Who acts: reindeer · What happens: fly · To what, where: ground
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 (reindeer), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 flew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 reindeer | det |
| 3 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 forest | punct |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 forest | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forest | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 forest | amod |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fast | punct |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 fast | advmod |
| 15 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 flew | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 could | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 could | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 fast | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the reindeer | the ground | then | fast property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over ground=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/10/56/