The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 63
And they flapped their wings and clucked so loud with delight, and made such a noise, that they woke up all the birds in the trees close by.
Who acts: girls · What happens: flap, cluck, make, wake up · To what, where: wings, noise, birds, trees
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 (girls), 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 | _ | 3 flapped | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flapped | nsubj |
| 3 | flapped | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wings | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flapped | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 clucked | cc |
| 7 | clucked | cluck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 flapped | conj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 loud | advmod |
| 9 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 7 clucked | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 delight | case |
| 11 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 clucked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flapped | parataxis |
| 15 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 noise | det:predet |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 noise | det |
| 17 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 woke | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 woke | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 woke | nsubj |
| 21 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 woke | compound:prt |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 birds | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 birds | det |
| 25 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 woke | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 trees | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 trees | det |
| 28 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 birds | nmod |
| 29 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 trees | amod |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 close | fixed |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flap | past | girls = girl | girls's wings | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cluck | participle | girls = girl not said here | with delight; loud property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | past | such noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | |||||
| 4 | wake up | past | girls = girl | all birds | the trees | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bird=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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