The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 98
The bird turned and flew quickly away, but the boy never let go, not even when they soared high into the air.
Who acts: bird, boy, bunches · What happens: turn, fly, not let, go, not soar · To what, where: air
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 (bird, boy, bunches), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 flew | cc |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 6 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 7 away | advmod |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 flew | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 go | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | nsubj |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 let | advmod |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 boy | acl |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 turned | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 soared | punct |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 soared | advmod |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 soared | advmod |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 soared | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 soared | nsubj |
| 20 | soared | soar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | conj |
| 21 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 soared | advmod |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 air | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 air | det |
| 24 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 soared | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the bird | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fly | past | the bird not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not let | infinitive | the boy not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | the boy | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not soar | past | bunches = bunch | the air | high property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into air=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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