The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 32

And the ship rose and rose, and in another minute was flying through the air, when the Simpleton, who was on the look out, cast his eyes down to the earth and saw a man beneath him on the road, who was kneeling with his ear upon the damp ground.

Who acts: ship, Simpleton, road · What happens: rise, fly, be, cast, see, kneel · To what, where: air, look, eyes, man, road, damp ground

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ship, Simpleton, road), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 rose	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ship	det
3	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rose	nsubj
4	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rose	cc
6	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rose	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 flying	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 flying	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 minute	case
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 minute	det
11	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flying	obl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 flying	aux
13	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 rose	advcl
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 air	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 air	det
16	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flying	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 cast	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 cast	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Simpleton	det
20	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 cast	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 look	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 look	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 look	cop
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 look	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 look	det
26	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Simpleton	appos
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 look	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Simpleton	punct
29	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 flying	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 eyes	nmod:poss
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 cast	obj
32	down	down	ADV	_	29 cast	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 earth	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 earth	det
35	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 down	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 saw	cc
37	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rose	conj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 man	det
39	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 saw	obj
40	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 saw	obl
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 road	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 road	det
44	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 saw	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 kneeling	punct
46	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 kneeling	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 kneeling	aux
48	kneeling	kneel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 road	acl
49	with	with	ADP	_	51 ear	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 ear	nmod:poss
51	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 kneeling	obl
52	upon	upon	ADP	_	55 ground	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 ground	det
54	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 ground	amod
55	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 kneeling	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the ship					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rise	past	the ship not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fly	past · progressive	the ship not said here		the air	minute		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location
4	is	past	the Simpleton		the look			tree rules
5	cast	infinitive	the Simpleton	Simpleton's eyes			down property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Product
6	see	past	the ship not said here	a man	the road		beneath Simpleton	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
7	kneel	past · progressive	the road		the damp ground		with Simpleton's ear	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon ground=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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