The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 50
The bird rose up in the air in its agony and vanished into the clouds, and the youth fell on to the broad branches of the apple-tree.
Who acts: bird, youth · What happens: rise up, vanish, fall on · To what, where: air, clouds
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (bird, youth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 rose | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 air | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 air | det |
| 7 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 agony | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 agony | nmod:poss |
| 10 | agony | agony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 vanished | cc |
| 12 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 clouds | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 clouds | det |
| 15 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 vanished | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fell | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fell | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 youth | det |
| 19 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | nsubj |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADV | _ | 20 fell | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 branches | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 branches | det |
| 24 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 branches | amod |
| 25 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fell | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 tree | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tree | det |
| 28 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tree | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 apple | punct |
| 30 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 branches | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | past | the bird | the air | in air's agony | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location | |||
| 2 | vanish | past | the bird not said here | the clouds | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall on | past | the youth | to the broad branches of the apple tree | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to branch=Theme |
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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