The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 8
His Majesty went out into an open field at once, looked up into the sky and saw, far, far away, an eagle flying up towards the sun and looking like a little speck.
Who acts: Majesty, eagle · What happens: go out, look up, see, fly up, look · To what, where: open field, eagle, sun
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 (Majesty, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 field | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 field | det |
| 7 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 field | amod |
| 8 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 once | case |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 looked | compound:prt |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 sky | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sky | det |
| 16 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looked | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saw | cc |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 far | punct |
| 20 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 saw | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 away | punct |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 away | advmod |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 far | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 eagle | punct |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 eagle | det |
| 26 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obl |
| 27 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 eagle | acl |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 flying | compound:prt |
| 29 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 31 sun | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sun | det |
| 31 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 flying | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 looking | cc |
| 33 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 flying | conj |
| 34 | like | like | ADP | _ | 37 speck | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 speck | det |
| 36 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 speck | amod |
| 37 | speck | speck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 looking | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Simon's Majesty | a open field | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | look up | past | Simon's Majesty not said here | into the sky | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into sky=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Simon's Majesty not said here | a eagle | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | fly up | gerund | a eagle not said here | the sun | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards sun=Destination | ||||
| 5 | look | gerund | a eagle not said here | like a little speck | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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