The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 56
And the doves spread their wings in a fright and flew up to the very top of a tree, their bodies shaking with anger.
Who acts: doves, bodies · What happens: spread, fly up, shake · To what, where: wings, fright
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 (doves, bodies), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 spread | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 doves | det |
| 3 | doves | dove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spread | nsubj |
| 4 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wings | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spread | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 fright | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fright | det |
| 9 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 flew | cc |
| 11 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spread | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 flew | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 top | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 top | det |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 top | advmod |
| 16 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flew | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 top | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bodies | punct |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 22 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 top | conj |
| 23 | shaking | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 bodies | acl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 anger | case |
| 25 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shaking | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | present | the doves | doves's wings | a fright | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wing=Theme in fright=Destination | |||
| 2 | fly up | past | the doves not said here | to the top of a tree and doves's bodies result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to top=Result | ||||
| 3 | shake | gerund | doves's bodies not said here | with anger | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with anger=Co-Patient |
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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