The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 58
Then he flew away, and in a few minutes a great flock of wild ducks were swimming all up and down the stream looking with all their might, and long before the king came back from his council there it was, safe on the grass beside the prince.
Who acts: life, great flock, king, flock · What happens: fly away, swim, look, come back, be · To what, where: council, grass
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, great flock, king, flock), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 flew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 swimming | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 swimming | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 minutes | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 minutes | det |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 minutes | amod |
| 10 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 swimming | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 flock | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 flock | amod |
| 13 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 swimming | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 ducks | case |
| 15 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ducks | amod |
| 16 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 flock | nmod |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 swimming | aux |
| 18 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 flew | advcl |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 up | advmod |
| 20 | up | up | ADV | _ | 18 swimming | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stream | cc |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 24 stream | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 stream | det |
| 24 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 up | conj |
| 25 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 swimming | advcl |
| 26 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 29 might | mark |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 might | det:predet |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 might | nmod:poss |
| 29 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 looking | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 came | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 came | cc |
| 32 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 came | advmod |
| 33 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 36 came | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 king | det |
| 35 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 came | nsubj |
| 36 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 37 | back | back | ADV | _ | 36 came | advmod |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 council | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 council | nmod:poss |
| 40 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 came | obl |
| 41 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 came | advmod |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 safe | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 safe | cop |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 safe | punct |
| 45 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 came | parataxis |
| 46 | on | on | ADP | _ | 48 grass | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 grass | det |
| 48 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 safe | obl |
| 49 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 51 prince | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 prince | det |
| 51 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 safe | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away | past | life | then | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | swim | past · progressive | a great flock of wild ducks | minute | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | a great flock of wild ducks not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | come back | past | the king | life's council; there | long property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from council=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | is | past | flock | the grass | beside the prince; safe property | tree rules |
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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