The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 67

And so he too joined them; and away the ship flew on, and on, and on, and once more the Simpleton looked out, and this time he saw a man carrying straw upon his back.

Who acts: sort, ship, Simpleton, man · What happens: join, fly, look out, see, carry · To what, where: lips, man, straw

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 (sort, 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 joined	nsubj
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 joined	advmod
5	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 joined	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 flew	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 away	cc
9	away	away	ADV	_	12 flew	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ship	det
11	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flew	nsubj
12	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 joined	parataxis
13	on	on	ADV	_	12 flew	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 on	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 on	cc
16	on	on	ADV	_	12 flew	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 on	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 on	cc
19	on	on	ADV	_	16 on	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 looked	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 looked	cc
22	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 more	advmod
23	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	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	12 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	12 flew	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 man	det
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 saw	obj
36	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 man	acl
37	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 carrying	obj
38	upon	upon	ADP	_	40 back	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 back	nmod:poss
40	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 carrying	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 joined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	join	past	sort	lips = lip			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	fly	past	the ship			away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look out	past	the Simpleton				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	carry	gerund	a man not said here	straw		upon Simpleton's back	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent straw=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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