Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 13
If they chanced to see a deer or a rabbit, they would swoop down upon it swift as any arrow.
Who acts: king, rabbit · What happens: chance, see, swoop down, swift · To what, where: deer
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, rabbit), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 chanced | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chanced | nsubj |
| 3 | chanced | chance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 swoop | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 chanced | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 deer | det |
| 7 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 rabbit | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 rabbit | det |
| 10 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deer | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 chanced | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 swoop | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 swoop | aux |
| 14 | swoop | swoop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 swoop | advmod |
| 16 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 18 swift | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 swift | nsubj |
| 18 | swift | swift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 swoop | advcl |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 arrow | case |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 arrow | det |
| 21 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 swift | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 swoop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chance a condition, not said to happen | past | king | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | king not said here | a deer or a rabbit | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deer=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | swoop down | would | king | down property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | swift | present | rabbit | as any arrow | tree rules |
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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