The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 222

You can sit on my back, and we will fly far away from the ugly mole and his dark house, over the mountains, to the warm countries where the sun shines more brightly than here, where it is always summer, and there are always beautiful flowers.

Who acts: You, we, sun, country, beautiful flowers · What happens: sit, fly, shine, be · To what, where: back, mountains, summer

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: who acts (You, we, sun, country), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 sit	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sit	aux
3	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 back	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 back	nmod:poss
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sit	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fly	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fly	cc
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 fly	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 fly	aux
11	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sit	conj
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 away	advmod
13	away	away	ADV	_	11 fly	advmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 mole	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mole	det
16	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 mole	amod
17	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 away	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 house	cc
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 house	nmod:poss
20	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 house	amod
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mole	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mountains	punct
23	over	over	ADP	_	25 mountains	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mountains	det
25	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fly	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 countries	punct
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 countries	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 countries	det
29	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 countries	amod
30	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fly	conj
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 shines	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sun	det
33	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 shines	nsubj
34	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 countries	advcl
35	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 brightly	advmod
36	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	38 here	advmod
37	than	than	ADP	_	38 here	case
38	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 shines	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 summer	punct
40	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	44 summer	advmod
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 summer	nsubj
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 summer	cop
43	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	44 summer	advmod
44	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 here	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 are	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 are	cc
47	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	48 are	expl
48	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sit	parataxis
49	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	50 beautiful	advmod
50	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 flowers	amod
51	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 are	nsubj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	can	You		my back		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location
2	fly	future	we		the mountains	away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over mountain=Location
3	shine	present	the sun				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	present	country	summer		always property	tree rules
5	does	present	beautiful flowers		there		vn exist-47.1 «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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