English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 40
They flew and they flew till they swooped down on Earl Mar's castle just as the wedding party were setting out for the church.
Who acts: words, wedding party · What happens: fly, swoop down, set out · To what, where: 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 (words, wedding party), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 flew | cc |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flew | conj |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 swooped | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 swooped | nsubj |
| 8 | swooped | swoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flew | ccomp |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 swooped | compound:prt |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 castle | case |
| 11 | Earl | Earl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 castle | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Mar | March | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 11 Earl | flat |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Earl | case |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swooped | obl |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 party | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 party | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 party | det |
| 18 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 party | compound |
| 19 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 setting | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 setting | aux |
| 21 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 swooped | advcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 setting | compound:prt |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 church | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 church | det |
| 25 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 setting | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | words = word | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fly | past | words = word | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | swoop down | past | words = word | Earl's castle | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | set out | past · progressive | the wedding party | for the church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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