The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 35
She then crumbled the bread on the ground, and was pleased to see the doves flutter quite cheerfully towards it.
Who acts: stepmother, doves · What happens: crumble, be, see, flutter · To what, where: bread, ground · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, doves), 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 | 3 crumbled | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 crumbled | advmod |
| 3 | crumbled | crumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bread | det |
| 5 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crumbled | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crumbled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pleased | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pleased | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pleased | cop |
| 12 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crumbled | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 pleased | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 doves | det |
| 16 | doves | dove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 flutter | nsubj |
| 17 | flutter | flutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | ccomp |
| 18 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 19 cheerfully | advmod |
| 19 | cheerfully | cheerfully | ADV | _ | 17 flutter | advmod |
| 20 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 flutter | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crumbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crumble | past | stepmother | the bread | the ground | then | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient | ||
| 2 | is | past | stepmother not said here | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | stepmother not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | flutter | present | the doves | towards bread; cheerfully property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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