The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 62
Years flew by, and every morning Uraschimataro sailed his boat into the deep sea.
Who acts: Years, morning · What happens: fly by, sail · To what, where: boat, deep sea
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Years, morning), 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 | Years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 2 flew | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sailed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sailed | cc |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 morning | det |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sailed | nsubj |
| 8 | Uraschimataro | Uraschimataro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 morning | appos |
| 9 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flew | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 boat | nmod:poss |
| 11 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sailed | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sea | det |
| 14 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sea | amod |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sailed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly by | past | Years | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sail | past | every morning | couple's boat | the deep sea | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent boat=Theme into sea=Trajectory |
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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