The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 60
When we grew up and heard you were searching for the golden apple, we flew far away over the seas to the end of the world, where the tree of life grows, and fetched the golden apple for you.’
Who acts: we, you, tree · What happens: grow up, search, fly, grow, fetch · To what, where: seas, golden apple
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, you, tree), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 grew | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 flew | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 grew | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 searching | cc |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 searching | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 searching | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 searching | aux |
| 9 | searching | search | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 grew | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 apple | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 apple | det |
| 12 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 apple | amod |
| 13 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 searching | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 flew | nsubj |
| 16 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 away | advmod |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 flew | advmod |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 seas | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 seas | det |
| 21 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 flew | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 end | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 end | det |
| 24 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seas | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 end | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 grows | punct |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 grows | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 tree | det |
| 31 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 grows | nsubj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 life | case |
| 33 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 tree | nmod |
| 34 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 end | acl:relcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 fetched | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 fetched | cc |
| 37 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 flew | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 apple | det |
| 39 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 apple | amod |
| 40 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 fetched | obj |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 you | case |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 fetched | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 flew | punct |
| 44 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past | we | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | search | past · progressive | you | for the golden apple | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for apple=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | we | the seas to the end of the world | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over sea=Location | |||
| 4 | grow | present | the tree of life | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | fetch | past | we not said here | the golden apple | for you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent apple=Theme for you=Beneficiary |
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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