The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 78

He pressed it, and away he flew in it up the chimney, high into the clouds, further and further away.

Who acts: lock · What happens: press, fly up · To what, where: Trunk, chimney

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lock), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pressed	nsubj
2	pressed	press	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 pressed	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 flew	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 flew	cc
6	away	away	ADV	_	8 flew	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 flew	nsubj
8	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pressed	parataxis
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 flew	obl
11	up	up	ADP	_	8 flew	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 chimney	det
13	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flew	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 high	punct
15	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 flew	conj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 clouds	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 clouds	det
18	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 high	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 further	punct
20	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 clouds	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 further	cc
22	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 away	advmod
23	away	away	ADV	_	20 further	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	past	lock	Trunk					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	fly up	past	lock	the chimney		Trunk		away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in it=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.

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