The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 41
Quickly the prince let loose his hawk, which soared straight into the air, then swooped upon the bird and brought it to his master.
Who acts: prince, hawk · What happens: let, lose, soar, swoop, bring · To what, where: hawk, air, master
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 (prince, hawk), 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 | Quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 let | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 let | nsubj |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | loose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hawk | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loose | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 soared | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 soared | nsubj |
| 10 | soared | soar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hawk | acl:relcl |
| 11 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 14 air | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 air | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 soared | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 swooped | punct |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 swooped | advmod |
| 17 | swooped | swoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 let | parataxis |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 bird | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bird | det |
| 20 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swooped | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 brought | cc |
| 22 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 swooped | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 brought | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 master | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 master | nmod:poss |
| 26 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 brought | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | the prince | quickly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | infinitive | the prince not said here | prince's hawk | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hawk=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | soar | past | prince's hawk | the air | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent air=Theme | ||||
| 4 | swoop | past | then | upon the bird | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bring | past | air | prince's master | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to master=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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