Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 43
But before it had touched his lips, the hawk swooped down again, and knocked it from his hands.
Who acts: hawk · What happens: touch, swoop down, knock · To what, where: cup
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 swooped | cc |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 touched | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 touched | aux |
| 5 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 swooped | advcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lips | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 touched | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 touched | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hawk | det |
| 10 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swooped | nsubj |
| 11 | swooped | swoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 swooped | compound:prt |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 swooped | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 knocked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 knocked | cc |
| 16 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 swooped | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 knocked | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 hands | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hands | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 knocked | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 swooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past · perfect · passive | cup | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer lip=Result | |||||
| 2 | swoop down | past | the hawk | again | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | knock | past | the hawk not said here | cup | from hawk's hands | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient from hand=Co-Patient |
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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