The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 63
So saying she mounted the dragon and flew off, the rockets shooting in all directions and leaving long trails of sparks.
Who acts: staff, rockets · What happens: say, mount, fly off, shoot, leave · To what, where: dragon, rockets, directions, long trails · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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 (staff, rockets), 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 | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 mounted | advcl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mounted | nsubj |
| 4 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dragon | det |
| 6 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mounted | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 flew | cc |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mounted | conj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 flew | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rockets | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rockets | det |
| 12 | rockets | rocket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flew | obj |
| 13 | shooting | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 rockets | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 directions | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 directions | det |
| 16 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shooting | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 leaving | cc |
| 18 | leaving | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 shooting | conj |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 trails | amod |
| 20 | trails | trail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 leaving | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sparks | case |
| 22 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 trails | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | staff not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mount | past | staff | the dragon | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fly off | past | staff not said here | the rockets | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rocket=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shoot | gerund | the rockets not said here | all directions | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in direction=Destination | ||||
| 5 | leave | gerund | the rockets not said here | long trails of sparks | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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