The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 59

She is larger than any of them, and never stays upon the earth, but flies again up into the black clouds.

Who acts: grandmother · What happens: be, not stay · To what, where: flies, black clouds

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 (grandmother), 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	3 larger	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 larger	cop
3	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 any	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 larger	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 any	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stays	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stays	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 stays	advmod
11	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 larger	conj
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 earth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 earth	det
14	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stays	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flies	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 flies	cc
17	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stays	obl
18	again	again	ADV	_	19 up	advmod
19	up	up	ADV	_	23 clouds	advmod
20	into	into	ADP	_	23 clouds	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 clouds	det
22	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 clouds	amod
23	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stays	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 larger	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	grandmother					than any; large property	tree rules
2	not stay	present	grandmother not said here	flies		the black clouds		upon the earth	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon earth=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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