The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 45
They remained on the tree till noon; then they flew away and went towards the south.
Who acts: birds · What happens: remain, fly away, go · To what, where: tree, south
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 remained | nsubj |
| 2 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 tree | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remained | obl |
| 6 | till | till | ADP | _ | 7 noon | case |
| 7 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remained | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 flew | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 flew | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 flew | nsubj |
| 11 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 remained | parataxis |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 flew | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 flew | conj |
| 15 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 17 south | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 south | det |
| 17 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | birds = bird | the tree | noon | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location | |||
| 2 | fly away | past | birds = bird | then | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | past | birds = bird not said here | the south | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards south=Initial_Location |
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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