The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 38
The next morning the storks flew towards the south, for winter was approaching.
Who acts: storks, winter · What happens: fly, approach · To what, where: south
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hazel-nut Child (29). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storks, winter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 storks | det |
| 5 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 flew | nsubj |
| 6 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 9 south | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 south | det |
| 9 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 approaching | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 approaching | mark |
| 12 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 approaching | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 approaching | aux |
| 14 | approaching | approach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 flew | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the storks | the south | morning | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards south=Destination | |||
| 2 | approach | past · progressive | winter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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