The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 61
And so the mighty drinker was added to the company; and the ship flew farther, and even farther, till again the Simpleton looked out, and this time he saw a man dragging a bundle of wood, walking through the forest beneath them.
Who acts: ship, Simpleton, man · What happens: add, fly, look out, see, drag, walk · To what, where: mighty drinker, man, bundle, forest
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, 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 | _ | 7 added | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 added | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 drinker | det |
| 4 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 drinker | amod |
| 5 | drinker | drinker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 added | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 added | aux:pass |
| 7 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 company | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 company | det |
| 10 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 added | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 flew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flew | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ship | det |
| 14 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flew | nsubj |
| 15 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 added | parataxis |
| 16 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 flew | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 farther | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 farther | cc |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 farther | advmod |
| 20 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 flew | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 looked | punct |
| 22 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 26 looked | mark |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 looked | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Simpleton | det |
| 25 | Simpleton | Simpleton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 looked | nsubj |
| 26 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 flew | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 looked | compound:prt |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 saw | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 saw | cc |
| 30 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 time | det |
| 31 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 saw | nsubj |
| 33 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 flew | conj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 man | det |
| 35 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 saw | obj |
| 36 | dragging | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 man | acl |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 bundle | det |
| 38 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 dragging | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 wood | case |
| 40 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bundle | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 walking | punct |
| 42 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 saw | conj |
| 43 | through | through | ADP | _ | 45 forest | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 forest | det |
| 45 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 walking | obl |
| 46 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 47 them | case |
| 47 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 walking | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past · passive | the mighty drinker | to the company | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to company=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | the ship | far property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look out | past | the Simpleton | again | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Simpleton | a man | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | drag | gerund | a man not said here | a bundle of wood | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme | ||||
| 6 | walk | gerund | Simpleton not said here | the forest | beneath beast | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory |
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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