The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 174

And so it happened that one day she was flying over a dense forest, and below hounds were barking fiercely, because, not having wings themselves, she was out of their reach.

Who acts: it, Elsa · What happens: happen, fly, bark, not have, be · To what, where: dense forest, wings, reach

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 (it, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 happened	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 happened	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 flying	mark
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 day	nummod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flying	obl:unmarked
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 flying	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 flying	aux
10	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
11	over	over	ADP	_	14 forest	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 forest	det
13	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 forest	amod
14	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flying	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 barking	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 barking	cc
17	below	below	ADP	_	18 hounds	case
18	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 barking	obl
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 barking	aux
20	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
21	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	20 barking	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 having	punct
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 having	mark
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 having	punct
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 having	advmod
26	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 barking	advcl
27	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 having	obj
28	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	27 wings	nmod:unmarked
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 reach	punct
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 reach	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 reach	cop
32	out	out	ADP	_	35 reach	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 reach	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 reach	nmod:poss
35	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 having	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly	past · progressive	Elsa		a dense forest	day		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over forest=Location
3	bark	past · progressive					below hounds; fiercely property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not have	gerund		wings wings				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
5	is	past	Elsa		wings's reach			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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