The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 14

She did not fly through the air, but neither did she walk upon the earth.

Who acts: earth, neither · What happens: not fly, walk · To what, where: air, earth

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth, neither), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fly	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 fly	advmod
4	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fly	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 walk	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 walk	cc
10	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	13 walk	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 walk	aux
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 walk	nsubj
13	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fly	parataxis
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 earth	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 earth	det
16	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walk	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fly	past · do-support	earth			the air			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through air=Location
2	walk	past · do-support	neither			the earth			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon earth=Trajectory

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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