The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 54
And so the glutton joined the party, and the ship mounted again into the air, and flew up and onward, till the Simpleton from his outlook saw a man walking by the shore of a great lake, and evidently looking for something.
Who acts: glutton, ship, Simpleton, man · What happens: join, mount, fly up, see, walk, look · To what, where: party, air, man
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 (glutton, ship, Simpleton, man), 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 | _ | 5 joined | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 joined | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 glutton | det |
| 4 | glutton | glutton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 joined | nsubj |
| 5 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 party | det |
| 7 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 joined | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mounted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 mounted | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ship | det |
| 11 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mounted | nsubj |
| 12 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 joined | conj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 mounted | advmod |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 air | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 air | det |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mounted | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 flew | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 flew | cc |
| 19 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 joined | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 flew | compound:prt |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 onward | cc |
| 22 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 20 up | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 saw | punct |
| 24 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 30 saw | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Simpleton | det |
| 26 | Simpleton | Simpleton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 saw | nsubj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 outlook | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 outlook | nmod:poss |
| 29 | outlook | outlook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Simpleton | nmod |
| 30 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 flew | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 man | det |
| 32 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 saw | obj |
| 33 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 man | acl |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 shore | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 shore | det |
| 36 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 walking | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 lake | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 lake | det |
| 39 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 lake | amod |
| 40 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 shore | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 looking | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 looking | cc |
| 43 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 44 looking | advmod |
| 44 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 saw | conj |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 something | case |
| 46 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 44 looking | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | past | the glutton | the party | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Patient | ||||
| 2 | mount | past | the ship | the air | again | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Location | |||
| 3 | fly up | past | the glutton not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | past | the Simpleton from Simpleton's outlook | a man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | walk | gerund | a man not said here | by the shore of a great lake | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by shore=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | look | gerund | the Simpleton from Simpleton's outlook not said here | for something; evidently property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for something=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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