More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 81
Then suddenly a dove was struggling in her arms, and almost flew away.
Who acts: dove · What happens: struggle, fly away · To what, where: arms
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dove), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 struggling | advmod |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 6 struggling | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dove | det |
| 4 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 struggling | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 struggling | aux |
| 6 | struggling | struggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 arms | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 arms | nmod:poss |
| 9 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 struggling | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 flew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 flew | cc |
| 12 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 13 flew | advmod |
| 13 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 struggling | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 flew | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 struggling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | struggle | past · progressive | a dove | dove's arms | then | suddenly property | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | fly away | past | a dove not said here | almost, away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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