The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 5

She cleared it like a bird, and the king, who was obliged to stop short at the edge, saw the lovely Diaphana flying over the plain, sometimes driven to the right, sometimes to the left, till at last she vanished out of sight.

Who acts: princess, king, lovely Diaphana · What happens: clear, oblige, stop, see, fly, drive · To what, where: wind, king, lovely Diaphana, plain, right, last

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, king, lovely Diaphana), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cleared	nsubj
2	cleared	clear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cleared	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 bird	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cleared	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 saw	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 saw	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 obliged	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 obliged	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 obliged	aux:pass
14	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 king	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 stop	mark
16	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 obliged	advcl
17	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stop	xcomp
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 edge	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 edge	det
20	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 short	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 king	punct
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cleared	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Diaphana	det
24	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Diaphana	amod
25	Diaphana	Diaphana	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 saw	obj
26	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 Diaphana	acl
27	over	over	ADP	_	29 plain	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 plain	det
29	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flying	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 driven	punct
31	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 driven	advmod
32	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 plain	acl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 right	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 right	det
35	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 driven	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 left	punct
37	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	40 left	advmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 left	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 left	det
40	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 right	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 vanished	punct
42	till	till	SCONJ	_	46 vanished	mark
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 last	case
44	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 vanished	obl
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 vanished	nsubj
46	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 saw	conj
47	out	out	ADP	_	49 sight	case
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 sight	case
49	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 vanished	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cleared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	clear	past	princess	wind		like a bird	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent it=Source
2	oblige	past · passive		the king			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	stop	to-infinitive				short property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	see	past	the king	the lovely Diaphana			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer diaphana=Stimulus
5	fly	gerund	the lovely Diaphana not said here		the plain		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over plain=Location
6	drive	participle		the plain not said here	the right and the left	sometimes property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to right=Trajectory
7	vanish	past	princess		last	out sight	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 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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