The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 107

So it flew up higher still--so high that the earth shone like one of the other stars.

Who acts: heart, earth · What happens: fly up, shine

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, earth), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 flew	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 flew	compound:prt
5	higher	high	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 flew	advmod
6	still	still	ADV	_	5 higher	advmod
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 high	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 high	advmod
9	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flew	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 shone	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 earth	det
12	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shone	nsubj
13	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 high	advcl
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 one	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 shone	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 stars	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stars	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stars	amod
19	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 one	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly up	past	heart					high property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shine	past	the earth					like one of the other stars	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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