The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 96

Having travelled from land to land in this fashion without finding anything to rivet his attention, it occurred to him to take the form of an eagle, and in this shape he flew across many countries and arrived at length in a new and lovely spot, where the air seemed filled with the scent of jessamine and orange flowers with which the ground was thickly planted.

Who acts: anything, attention, godmother, ground · What happens: travell, find, rivet, occur, take, fly · To what, where: land, anything, attention, godmother, form, shape

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anything, attention, godmother, ground), 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	Having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 travelled	aux
2	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 land	case
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 travelled	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 land	case
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 travelled	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 fashion	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 fashion	det
9	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 travelled	obl
10	without	without	SCONJ	_	11 finding	mark
11	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 travelled	advcl
12	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 finding	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 rivet	mark
14	rivet	rivet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 finding	xcomp
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 attention	nmod:poss
16	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rivet	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 occurred	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 occurred	nsubj
19	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 travelled	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 occurred	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 take	mark
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 occurred	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 form	det
25	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 eagle	case
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 eagle	det
28	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 form	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 flew	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 flew	cc
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 shape	case
32	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 shape	det
33	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 flew	obl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 flew	nsubj
35	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 occurred	parataxis
36	across	across	ADP	_	38 countries	case
37	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 countries	amod
38	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 flew	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 arrived	cc
40	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 flew	conj
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 length	case
42	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 arrived	obl
43	in	in	ADP	_	48 spot	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 spot	det
45	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 spot	amod
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 lovely	cc
47	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 new	conj
48	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 arrived	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 filled	punct
50	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	53 seemed	advmod
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 air	det
52	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 seemed	nsubj
53	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 filled	aux:pass
54	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 arrived	conj
55	with	with	ADP	_	57 scent	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 scent	det
57	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 filled	obl
58	of	of	ADP	_	59 jessamine	case
59	jessamine	jessamine	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 scent	nmod
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 flowers	cc
61	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 flowers	amod
62	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 jessamine	conj
63	with	with	ADP	_	64 which	case
64	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	68 thickly	obl
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 ground	det
66	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 thickly	nsubj
67	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 thickly	cop
68	thickly	thickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 flowers	conj
69	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	68 thickly	xcomp
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	travell	gerund · perfect				land	to land; in this fashion	tree rules
2	find	gerund		anything				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent anything=Attribute clause=Theme
3	rivet	to-infinitive	anything not said here	godmother's attention				vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient
4	occur	past	attention		godmother			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take	to-infinitive	attention not said here	the form of a eagle				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme
6	fly	past	godmother			this shape	across many countries	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in shape=Location
7	arrive	past	godmother not said here			length	in a new spot	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	fill	past · passive	godmother not said here				with the scent of jessamine and orange flowers	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with scent=Instrument
9	is	past	the ground				with orange flowers; thickly property	tree rules
10	plant	participle	the ground not said here					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
11	attend		godmother					nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent
12	form			a eagle				nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient
13	scent			jessamine and orange flowers				nom scent «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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