The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 59
He could no longer fly, and could never reach his bride.
Who acts: spark · What happens: fly, not reach · To what, where: bride
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spark), 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 | 5 fly | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fly | aux |
| 3 | no | no | ADV | _ | 4 longer | advmod |
| 4 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 fly | advmod |
| 5 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reach | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 reach | cc |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 reach | aux |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 reach | advmod |
| 10 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fly | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bride | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reach | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | could | spark | long property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not reach | could | spark not said here | spark's bride | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bride=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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