The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 67

The flight through the air was swift; on and on they went for hundreds and hundreds of miles without a stop, until at last they came to an island, and there the bird alighted.

Who acts: flight, wings, bird · What happens: be, go, come, alight · To what, where: last

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flight, wings, bird), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree 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 flight	det
2	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swift	nsubj
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 air	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 air	det
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flight	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 swift	cop
7	swift	swift	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
9	on	on	SCONJ	_	13 went	mark
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 on	cc
11	on	on	ADP	_	9 on	conj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 swift	parataxis
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 hundreds	case
15	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 went	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hundreds	cc
17	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hundreds	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 miles	case
19	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hundreds	nmod
20	without	without	ADP	_	22 stop	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 stop	det
22	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
24	until	until	SCONJ	_	28 came	mark
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 last	case
26	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 came	obl
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 island	case
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 island	det
31	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 alighted	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 alighted	cc
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 alighted	expl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bird	det
36	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 alighted	nsubj
37	alighted	alight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 swift	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 swift	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the flight through the air		swift property	tree rules
2	go	past	wings = wing		for hundreds and hundreds of miles; without a stop	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for hundred=Beneficiary
3	come	past	wings = wing	last	to a island	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial_Location
4	alight	participle	the bird	there		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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 67

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 67