English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 39

Without a word or a good-bye off they flew over the deep blue sea which was tossing and moaning.

Who acts: words, deep blue sea · What happens: fly, toss, moan · To what, where: good bye, deep blue sea

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 (words, deep blue sea), 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	Without	without	ADP	_	3 word	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 word	det
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 bye	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bye	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bye	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct
8	bye	bye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 word	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	11 flew	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 flew	nsubj
11	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bye	acl:relcl
12	over	over	ADP	_	16 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sea	det
14	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sea	amod
15	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sea	amod
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flew	obl
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 tossing	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 tossing	aux
19	tossing	toss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 sea	acl:relcl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 moaning	cc
21	moaning	moan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 tossing	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 word	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fly	past	words = word	a good bye not said here	the deep blue sea	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent bye=Theme over sea=Location
2	toss	past · progressive	the deep blue sea			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	moan	gerund	the deep blue sea not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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