The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 48
They instantly flew off to obey his commands, and spread themselves over the whole earth.
Who acts: spirits, word · What happens: fly off, obey, spread, command · To what, where: commands, spirits, whole earth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (spirits, word), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 flew | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 obey | mark |
| 6 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 flew | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 commands | nmod:poss |
| 8 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 obey | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 spread | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 spread | cc |
| 11 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 12 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 spread | obj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 earth | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 earth | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 earth | amod |
| 16 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spread | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly off | past | spirits = spirit | instantly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | obey | to-infinitive | spirits = spirit not said here | word's commands | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spread | past | spirits = spirit not said here | spirits = spirit | the whole earth | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme over earth=Destination | |||
| 4 | command | word | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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