Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 39
The hawk flew back and forth a few times, and then alighted among the rocks by the spring.
Who acts: hawk · What happens: fly, alight
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 (hawk), 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 hawk | det |
| 2 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 forth | cc |
| 6 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 back | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 times | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 times | amod |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flew | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 alighted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 alighted | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 alighted | advmod |
| 13 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 flew | conj |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 rocks | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rocks | det |
| 16 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 alighted | obl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 spring | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 spring | det |
| 19 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 alighted | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the hawk | time | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | alight | participle | the hawk not said here | then; spring | among the rocks | 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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