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title: Up and up flew the Simurgh, till earth looked like an egg resting on… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Up and up flew the Simurgh, till earth looked like an egg resting on an ocean. Who acts: earth, egg. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 135

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Up and up flew the Simurgh, till earth looked like an egg resting on an ocean.

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**Who acts:** earth, egg · **What happens:** fly, look, rest · **To what, where:** Simurgh, ocean

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth, egg), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:5:135
# text = Up and up flew the Simurgh, till earth looked like an egg resting on an ocean.
1	Up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Simurgh	Simurgh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past |  | the Simurgh |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location simurgh=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past | earth |  |  |  |  | like a egg | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **rest** | gerund | a egg *not said here* |  |  | a ocean |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ocean=Location |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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