The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 251
‘Farewell, farewell!’ said the little swallow with a heavy heart, and flew away to farther lands, far, far away, right back to Denmark.
What happens: say, fly away · To what, where: little swallow · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Farewell | farewell | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Farewell | punct |
| 4 | farewell | farewell | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 farewell | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 swallow | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 swallow | amod |
| 10 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 heart | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 heart | det |
| 13 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 heart | amod |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swallow | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 flew | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 flew | cc |
| 17 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 flew | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 lands | case |
| 20 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 lands | amod |
| 21 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 flew | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 far | punct |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 flew | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 away | punct |
| 25 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 away | advmod |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 far | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 back | punct |
| 28 | right | right | ADV | _ | 29 back | advmod |
| 29 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 flew | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 Denmark | case |
| 31 | Denmark | Denmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 back | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the little swallow | with a heavy heart | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent swallow=Theme with heart=Manner | ||||
| 2 | fly away | past | to farther lands result; away, far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to land=Result |
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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