More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 46
The Cuckoo, as soon as she perceived herself within the hedge, flew away. "
Who acts: Cuckoo · What happens: perceive, fly away · To what, where: _
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cuckoo), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Cuckoo | det |
| 2 | Cuckoo | Cuckoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 perceived | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cuckoo | punct |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 soon | advmod |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 perceived | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 perceived | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 perceived | nsubj |
| 8 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 perceived | obj |
| 10 | within | within | ADP | _ | 12 hedge | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hedge | det |
| 12 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 perceived | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flew | punct |
| 14 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 perceived | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 flew | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 perceived | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 perceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past | the Cuckoo | _ | within the hedge; soon property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer herself=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | fly away | past | the Cuckoo not said here | 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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