The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 65
The huntsmen blew their horns, the falconers took their hawks on their wrists, and off they all set out across country till they came to a green hedge.
Who acts: huntsmen, falconers · What happens: blow, take, set out, come · To what, where: horns, hawks, wrists, country, green hedge
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huntsmen, falconers), 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 | 2 huntsmen | det |
| 2 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 blew | nsubj |
| 3 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horns | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 blew | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 falconers | det |
| 8 | falconers | falconer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blew | parataxis |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hawks | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hawks | hawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 wrists | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wrists | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wrists | wrist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 took | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 set | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 set | cc |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 set | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 set | nsubj |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 set | advmod |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 set | compound:prt |
| 22 | across | across | ADP | _ | 23 country | case |
| 23 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | obl |
| 24 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 26 came | mark |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 came | nsubj |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 set | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 hedge | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 hedge | det |
| 29 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 hedge | amod |
| 30 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 came | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | the huntsmen | huntsmen's horns | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the falconers | huntsmen's hawks | huntsmen's wrists | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hawk=Theme on wrist=Destination | |||
| 3 | set out | past | falconers = falconer | country | all property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across country=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | come | past | falconers = falconer | a green hedge | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hedge=Initial_Location |
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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