The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 105
Away floated the leaf down the stream, bearing Thumbelina far beyond the reach of the toad.
What happens: float, bear · To what, where: leaf, stream, Thumbelina
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 2 floated | advmod |
| 2 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 leaf | det |
| 4 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 floated | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 stream | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stream | det |
| 7 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 floated | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bearing | punct |
| 9 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 floated | advcl |
| 10 | Thumbelina | Thumbelina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bearing | obj |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 reach | advmod |
| 12 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 14 reach | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 reach | det |
| 14 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bearing | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 toad | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 toad | det |
| 17 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reach | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 floated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | past | the leaf | the stream | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme down stream=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | bear | gerund | Thumbelina | beyond the reach of the toad | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thumbelina=Patient |
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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