The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 29
In its rays he could see the nest with the young eaglets, who were watching him over the side.
Who acts: stream, young eaglets, top · What happens: see, watch, ray · To what, where: nest, rays, stream, side
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stream, young eaglets, top), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 rays | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 rays | nmod:poss |
| 3 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 see | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 nest | det |
| 8 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 eaglets | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 eaglets | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eaglets | amod |
| 12 | eaglets | eaglet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 see | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 watching | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 watching | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 watching | aux |
| 16 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 eaglets | acl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 watching | obj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 side | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 side | det |
| 20 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 watching | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | stream | the nest | top's rays | with the young eaglets | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nest=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | watch | past · progressive | the young eaglets | stream | the side | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | ray | top | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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