The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 34
Quick as lightning, and forgetful of every danger, she flew down upon them.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: fly down
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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 | Quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 lightning | case |
| 3 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Quick | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 forgetful | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 forgetful | cc |
| 6 | forgetful | forgetful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Quick | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 danger | case |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 danger | det |
| 9 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forgetful | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flew | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 flew | nsubj |
| 12 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 forgetful | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 flew | advmod |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 flew | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly down | past | daughter | upon fishes = fish; down property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent upon they=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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