Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 70
He took the bird up gently, and laid it in his hunting bag.
Who acts: hawk · What happens: take up, lay · To what, where: bird, hunting bag
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bird | det |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 6 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 2 took | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 laid | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 laid | cc |
| 9 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 laid | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 bag | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bag | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bag | compound |
| 14 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laid | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | hawk | the bird | gently property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bird=Destination | |||
| 2 | lay | past | hawk not said here | bird | hawk's hunting bag | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bag=Destination |
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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