The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 106
Well, finding herself left alone in a strange place she began to cry with fright, and an eagle hovering near, heard her, and went to see what the sound came from.
Who acts: finding, hawk, eagle, sound · What happens: find, leave, begin, cry, hover, hear · To what, where: hawk, strange place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (finding, hawk, eagle, sound), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 left | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 left | csubj |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 finding | obj |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 left | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 9 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 place | amod |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 began | nsubj |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 place | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 cry | mark |
| 14 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 fright | case |
| 16 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cry | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 heard | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 heard | cc |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 eagle | det |
| 20 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heard | nsubj |
| 21 | hovering | hover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 eagle | acl |
| 22 | near | near | ADV | _ | 21 hovering | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 eagle | punct |
| 24 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | parataxis |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 heard | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 went | cc |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 heard | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 see | mark |
| 30 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 went | xcomp |
| 31 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 34 came | obj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 sound | det |
| 33 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 came | nsubj |
| 34 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 see | ccomp |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 came | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | hawk | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic | |||||
| 2 | leave | participle | finding | in a strange place result; alone property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in place=Result | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | hawk | a strange place not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | hawk not said here | with fright | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fright=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hover | gerund | a eagle not said here | near property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | hear | past | a eagle | hawk | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | go | past | a eagle not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | see | to-infinitive | a eagle not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | come | past | the sound | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=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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