The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 173
For several days she flew steadily south, resting from time to time when her wings grew tired, for hunger she never felt.
Who acts: Elsa, wings · What happens: fly, rest, grow, not feel · To what, where: hunger
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, wings), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flew | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | steadily | steadily | ADV | _ | 7 south | advmod |
| 7 | south | south | ADV | _ | 5 flew | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 resting | punct |
| 9 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 grew | advcl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 resting | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 resting | obl |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 grew | advmod |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wings | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 grew | nsubj |
| 17 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flew | conj |
| 18 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 grew | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hunger | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 hunger | case |
| 21 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grew | obl |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 felt | nsubj |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 felt | advmod |
| 24 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 hunger | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | Elsa | day | south property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | rest | gerund | Elsa's wings not said here | time | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | Elsa's wings | for hunger; tired property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not feel | past | Elsa | hunger not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunger=Theme |
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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