English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 29

And he flew and he flew till he was over the deep, deep sea, and yet on he flew till he came to his mother's castle.

Who acts: Coo · What happens: fly, be, come · To what, where: deep deep sea, castle

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Coo), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 flew	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 flew	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 flew	nsubj
6	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 sea	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sea	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sea	cop
10	over	over	ADP	_	15 sea	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sea	det
12	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sea	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 deep	punct
14	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sea	amod
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 flew	cc
18	yet	yet	ADV	_	21 flew	advmod
19	on	on	SCONJ	_	21 flew	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 flew	nsubj
21	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
22	till	till	SCONJ	_	24 came	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 flew	advcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	29 castle	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mother	nmod:poss
27	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 castle	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 mother	case
29	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	fly	past	Coo			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly	past	Coo			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	Coo	the deep deep sea		tree rules
4	fly	past	Coo		yet	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	Coo	Coo's mother's castle		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location

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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