The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 114
Is that a white gull he sees flying towards the shore, or is it a sail?
Who acts: white gull, gull · What happens: be, fly · To what, where: shore, sail
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 (white gull, gull), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sees | cop |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 sees | mark |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 gull | det |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gull | amod |
| 5 | gull | gull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sees | nsubj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sees | nsubj |
| 7 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 sail | advcl |
| 8 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 sees | xcomp |
| 9 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 shore | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shore | det |
| 11 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flying | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sail | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 sail | cc |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 sail | cop |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sail | nsubj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sail | det |
| 17 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 sail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a white gull | see property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly | gerund | a white gull not said here | the shore | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards shore=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | gull | a sail | 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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