Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 55
The next moment the poor hawk lay bleeding and dying at its master's feet.
Who acts: next moment · What happens: lie, bleed, die · To what, where: feet
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 (next moment), 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 | 3 moment | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moment | amod |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hawk | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hawk | amod |
| 6 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | nsubj |
| 7 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | bleeding | bleed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 lay | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dying | cc |
| 10 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 bleeding | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 feet | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 master | nmod:poss |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 feet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 master | case |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dying | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the next moment | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bleed | gerund | the next moment not said here | vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 3 | die | gerund | the next moment not said here | bird's master's feet | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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