English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 35
“A man going straight up into the sky, as if he were walking on a road.”
Who acts: man · What happens: go, walk · To what, where: sky, road
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | nsubj |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 6 up | advmod |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 going | advmod |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 sky | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sky | det |
| 9 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 walking | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 walking | mark |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 walking | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 walking | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 walking | aux |
| 15 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 going | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 road | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 road | det |
| 18 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walking | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | gerund | a man | the sky | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into sky=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | walk a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · progressive | man | a road | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on road=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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