The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 86

Shaking his wrist, the falcon seated on it darted into the air, and swooped down upon the quarry he had marked, which fell dead to the ground.

Who acts: falcon · What happens: shake, seat, dart, swoop down, mark, fall · To what, where: wrist, falcon, air, man

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 (falcon), 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	Shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 darted	advcl
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wrist	nmod:poss
3	wrist	wrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shaking	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Shaking	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 falcon	det
6	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 darted	nsubj
7	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 falcon	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seated	obl
10	darted	dart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 air	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 air	det
13	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 darted	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 swooped	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 swooped	cc
16	swooped	swoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 darted	conj
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 swooped	advmod
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 quarry	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 quarry	det
20	quarry	quarry	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 swooped	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 marked	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 marked	aux
23	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 swooped	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fell	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 fell	nsubj
26	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 marked	conj
27	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fell	xcomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 ground	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ground	det
30	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fell	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 darted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shake	gerund	the falcon not said here	man's wrist			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wrist=Patient
2	seat	participle		the falcon not said here		on falcon	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
3	dart	past	the falcon		the air		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Destination
4	swoop down	past	the falcon not said here			upon the quarry; down property	tree rules
5	mark	past · perfect · passive		man			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
6	fall	past				to the ground; dead property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=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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