The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 126
Then away they flew over forests and lakes, over sea and land.
Who acts: Kay · What happens: fly · To what, where: forests
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay), 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 | 2 away | advmod |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 forests | case |
| 6 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flew | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lakes | cc |
| 8 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 forests | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sea | punct |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 land | cc |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sea | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | Kay | forests and lakes | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over forest=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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