The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 52
As they rose through the air the Princess remarked a figure mounted on an eagle’s back flying in front of the chariot.
Who acts: Prince, Princess · What happens: rise, remark, mount, fly · To what, where: air, figure, front
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Princess), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 rose | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 remarked | advcl |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 air | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 air | det |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princess | det |
| 8 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 remarked | nsubj |
| 9 | remarked | remark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 figure | det |
| 11 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ’s | nsubj |
| 12 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 figure | acl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 eagle | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 eagle | det |
| 15 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mounted | obl |
| 16 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 remarked | conj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 ’s | advmod |
| 18 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 ’s | xcomp |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 front | case |
| 20 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flying | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 chariot | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 chariot | det |
| 23 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 front | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 remarked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Prince | the air | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through air=Location | ||||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mount | participle | a figure not said here | on a eagle | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on eagle=Destination | ||||
| 4 | fly | gerund | the Princess not said here | front of the chariot | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=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 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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