The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 71
While she was busy rubbing the corn she heard a whirr of wings, and a flock of sparrows flew in at the window.
Who acts: cow, flock, wings · What happens: be, rub, hear, fly, whirr · To what, where: corn, whirr, window
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cow, flock, wings), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 busy | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 busy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 busy | cop |
| 4 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | rubbing | rub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 busy | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 corn | det |
| 7 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rubbing | obj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 corn | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 whirr | det |
| 11 | whirr | whirr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 wings | case |
| 13 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 whirr | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 flew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 flew | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 flock | det |
| 17 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flew | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sparrows | case |
| 19 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 flock | nmod |
| 20 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 busy | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 window | case |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 window | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 window | det |
| 24 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flew | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | cow | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rub | gerund | cow not said here | the corn | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent corn=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | cow | a whirr of wings | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whirr=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | fly | past | a flock of sparrows | the window | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in window=Location | ||||
| 5 | whirr | wings | nom whirr «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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