The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 10
Simon only smiled; he lifted his cross-bow, took aim, fired, and the eagle fell.
Who acts: Simon, eagle · What happens: smile, lift, take, fire, fall · To what, where: cross-bow, aim
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simon, eagle), 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 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 smiled | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 smiled | advmod |
| 3 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 lifted | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lifted | nsubj |
| 6 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 smiled | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 cross-bow | nmod:poss |
| 8 | cross-bow | cross-bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lifted | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lifted | conj |
| 11 | aim | aim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fired | punct |
| 13 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 took | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fell | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fell | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 eagle | det |
| 17 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fell | nsubj |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 smiled | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | Simon | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lift | past | Simon | Simon's cross-bow | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross-bow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Simon not said here | aim | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fire | participle | Simon not said here | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | fall | past | the eagle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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