The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 71
This seemed so strange and so unlike an eagle, that the prince stood still with surprise, and the bird saw him and flew to the ground.
Who acts: This, prince, bird · What happens: seem, stand, see, fly · To what, where: Prince
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, prince, bird), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 strange | advmod |
| 4 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 seemed | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stood | cc |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 stood | advmod |
| 7 | unlike | unlike | ADP | _ | 9 eagle | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 eagle | det |
| 9 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eagle | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 stood | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prince | det |
| 13 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | nsubj |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | conj |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 stood | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 surprise | case |
| 17 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bird | det |
| 21 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | parataxis |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 flew | cc |
| 25 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 saw | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 ground | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 ground | det |
| 28 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 flew | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | This | strange property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the prince | still | unlike a eagle; with surprise | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | see | past | the bird | Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | fly | past | the bird not said here | to the ground result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to ground=Result |
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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