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title: London Stansted Airport, north-east of London in Essex, has flights… — London · tree and pragmatics
description: London Stansted Airport, north-east of London in Essex, has flights that serve the greatest number of European destinations of any UK airport and is the main base of Ryanair, the world's largest international airline by number of international passengers. Who acts: London, flights. A sentence of Wik
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# London, sentence 293

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From Wikipedia, [«London»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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London Stansted Airport, north-east of London in Essex, has flights that serve the greatest number of European destinations of any UK airport and is the main base of Ryanair, the world's largest international airline by number of international passengers.

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**Who acts:** London, flights · **What happens:** have, serve, be · **To what, where:** flights, greatest number, main base

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «London». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (London, flights), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:London:293
# text = London Stansted Airport, north-east of London in Essex, has flights that serve the greatest number of European destinations of any UK airport and is the main base of Ryanair, the world's largest international airline by number of international passengers.
1	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
2	Stansted	Stansted	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Airport	Airport	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Essex	Essex	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	flights	flight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	serve	serve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	destinations	destination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
25	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	airport	airport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Ryanair	Ryanair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	's	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	40	amod	_	_
39	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	airline	airline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
41	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | London and Stansted Airport and north east of London in Essex | flights |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Patient |
| 2 | **serve** | present | flights | the greatest number of European destinations of any UK airport |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Attribute |
| 3 | **is a** | present | London and Stansted Airport and north east of London in Essex *not said here* | the main base |  |  |  | of Ryanair | tree rules |

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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 English Wikipedia, «London», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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