The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 172
Then she soared high in the air, and floated up towards the clouds, as if she had really been hatched an eagle.
Who acts: Elsa · What happens: soar, float up, hatch · To what, where: clouds, Elsa
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elsa), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 soared | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 soared | nsubj |
| 3 | soared | soar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 soared | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 air | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 air | det |
| 7 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 soared | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 floated | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 floated | cc |
| 10 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 soared | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 floated | compound:prt |
| 12 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 14 clouds | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 clouds | det |
| 14 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 floated | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hatched | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 hatched | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 hatched | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hatched | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 hatched | aux |
| 20 | really | really | ADV | _ | 22 hatched | advmod |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 hatched | aux:pass |
| 22 | hatched | hatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 floated | advcl |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 eagle | det |
| 24 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hatched | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 soared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soar | past | Elsa | then | in the air; high property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in air=Attribute | |||
| 2 | float up | participle | Elsa not said here | the clouds | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards cloud=Destination | ||||
| 3 | hatch | past · perfect · passive | Elsa | tree rules |
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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