The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 11
As it was falling the sixth Simon ran with a dish, caught the bird before it fell to earth and brought it to the king.
Who acts: eagle, Simon · What happens: fall, run, catch, bring · To what, where: sixth, bird, eagle, king
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 (eagle, Simon), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 falling | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 falling | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 falling | aux |
| 4 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 caught | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sixth | det |
| 6 | sixth | sixth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 falling | obj |
| 7 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ran | nsubj |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sixth | acl:relcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 dish | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dish | det |
| 11 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ran | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 falling | punct |
| 13 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bird | det |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 caught | obj |
| 16 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 18 fell | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fell | nsubj |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 caught | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 earth | case |
| 20 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fell | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 brought | cc |
| 22 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fell | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 brought | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 king | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 brought | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · progressive | eagle | the sixth | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient sixth=Result | ||||
| 2 | run | past | Simon | the sixth not said here | with a dish | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sixth=Product with dish=Material | |||
| 3 | catch | past | the bird | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | eagle | to earth | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bring | past | eagle not said here | eagle | the king | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to king=Destination |
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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