The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 225

Up he flew into the air, over woods and seas, over the great mountains where the snow is always lying.

Who acts: mole, snow · What happens: fly, lie · To what, where: air

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 (mole, snow), 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	Up	up	ADP	_	3 flew	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 air	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 woods	punct
8	over	over	ADP	_	9 woods	case
9	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flew	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 seas	cc
11	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 woods	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mountains	punct
13	over	over	ADP	_	16 mountains	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mountains	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mountains	amod
16	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flew	conj
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 lying	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 snow	det
19	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lying	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 lying	aux
21	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	22 lying	advmod
22	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 mountains	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	mole			the air		over woods and seas	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over wood=Location
2	lie	present · progressive	the snow					always property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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