The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 41
Like a spirit the horse flew over mountains and valleys till he came to the borders of the empire.
Who acts: horse · What happens: fly, come · To what, where: mountains, borders
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 spirit | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spirit | det |
| 3 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | nsubj |
| 6 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 mountains | case |
| 8 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 flew | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 valleys | cc |
| 10 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mountains | conj |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 came | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flew | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 borders | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 borders | det |
| 16 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 came | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 empire | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 empire | det |
| 19 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 borders | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the horse | mountains and valleys | like a spirit | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over mountain=Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | horse | the borders of the empire | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to border=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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