The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 98
She looked back at the sparrows and smiled and nodded to them, and flapping their wings in reply they flew swiftly away.
Who acts: woman, wings · What happens: look back, smile, nod, flap, fly · To what, where: sparrows, wings, reply
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 (woman, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 sparrows | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sparrows | det |
| 6 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 looked | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 smiled | cc |
| 8 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 nodded | cc |
| 10 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 smiled | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 nodded | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flapping | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flapping | cc |
| 15 | flapping | flap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 looked | advcl |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wings | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 flapping | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 reply | case |
| 19 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flapping | obl |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 flew | nsubj |
| 21 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 reply | acl:relcl |
| 22 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 23 away | advmod |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 flew | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | past | woman | at the sparrows | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sparrow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | smile | past | woman not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | nod | past | woman not said here | sparrows = sparrow | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | flap | gerund | woman not said here | sparrows's wings | in reply | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent wing=Patient in reply=Topic | |||
| 5 | fly | past | wings = wing | reply not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location reply=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 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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