Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 77
Up and up they flew, whilst the earth seemed to recede into the distance and to grow smaller and smaller, until at length it disappeared from view altogether.
Who acts: man, earth · What happens: fly, seem, recede, grow, disappear · To what, where: length, view
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, earth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 5 flew | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 up | cc |
| 3 | up | up | ADV | _ | 1 Up | conj |
| 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 | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seemed | punct |
| 7 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 10 seemed | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 earth | det |
| 9 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seemed | nsubj |
| 10 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flew | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 recede | mark |
| 12 | recede | recede | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 seemed | xcomp |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 distance | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 distance | det |
| 15 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 recede | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 grow | cc |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 grow | mark |
| 18 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 recede | conj |
| 19 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 grow | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 smaller | cc |
| 21 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 smaller | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 length | punct |
| 23 | until | until | ADP | _ | 25 length | case |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 length | case |
| 25 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grow | obl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 disappeared | nsubj |
| 27 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 length | acl:relcl |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 view | case |
| 29 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 disappeared | obl |
| 30 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 27 disappeared | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | man | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seem | past | the earth | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | recede | to-infinitive | the earth not said here | into the distance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into distance=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | grow | to-infinitive | the earth not said here | until length | small property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | disappear | past | earth | length not said here | view | altogether property | tree rules |
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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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