The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 37
By the time they had finished all the crumbs the doves felt must better, and were able to fly back to their nest in the top of a tree.
Who acts: homewards, finished crumbs · What happens: finish, feel, be, fly back · To what, where: top
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 (homewards, finished crumbs), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 finished | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 finished | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 finished | aux |
| 6 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 crumbs | amod |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 crumbs | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 crumbs | det |
| 9 | crumbs | crumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 felt | nsubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 doves | det |
| 11 | doves | dove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 felt | nsubj |
| 12 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 better | aux |
| 14 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 felt | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 able | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 able | cc |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 able | cop |
| 18 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 felt | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 fly | mark |
| 20 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 able | xcomp |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 fly | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 nest | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 nest | nmod:poss |
| 24 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fly | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 top | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 top | det |
| 27 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fly | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 tree | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 tree | det |
| 30 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 top | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | homewards = homeward | time | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | all finished crumbs | well property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | all finished crumbs not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fly back | to-infinitive | all finished crumbs not said here | the top of a tree | to homewards's nest | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in top=Location |
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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