The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 85
On the way, however, he passed a pond, and as he approached a cloud of birds flew into the air.
Who acts: man, cloud · What happens: pass, approach, fly, cloud · To what, where: pond, way, air, birds
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, cloud), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passed | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 way | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 passed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 passed | nsubj |
| 8 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pond | det |
| 10 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 approached | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 approached | cc |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 approached | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 approached | nsubj |
| 15 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 passed | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cloud | det |
| 17 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flew | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 birds | case |
| 19 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 cloud | nmod |
| 20 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 approached | parataxis |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 air | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 air | det |
| 23 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flew | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | man | a pond | the way | however property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent pond=Theme on way=Destination | ||
| 2 | approach | past | man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fly | past | a cloud of birds | into the air result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result | ||||
| 4 | cloud | birds | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/13/85/