Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 12

At a word from their masters they would fly high up into the air, and look around for prey.

Who acts: king · What happens: fly, look around · To what, where: word

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The King and His Hawk.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 word	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 word	det
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fly	obl
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 masters	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 masters	nmod:poss
6	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 word	nmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fly	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fly	aux
9	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 up	advmod
11	up	up	ADV	_	9 fly	advmod
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 air	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 air	det
14	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fly	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 look	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 look	cc
17	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 fly	parataxis
18	around	around	ADV	_	17 look	advmod
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 prey	case
20	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 look	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	would	king			a word from king's masters		into the air	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at word=Location
2	look around	infinitive						for prey; around property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for prey=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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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