The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 114
Then he bade his falcon fly up into the sky--up, up, and up--and try if his sharp eyes could discover the old thief.
Who acts: procession, falcon, sharp eyes · What happens: bade, fly up, try, discover · To what, where: sky, old thief
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (procession, falcon, sharp eyes), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 bade | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bade | nsubj |
| 3 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 falcon | nmod:poss |
| 5 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fly | nsubj |
| 6 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bade | ccomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 fly | advmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 sky | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sky | det |
| 10 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fly | obl |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 up | punct |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 14 up | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 up | punct |
| 14 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 fly | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 up | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 up | cc |
| 17 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 bade | advmod |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 try | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 try | cc |
| 20 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 bade | parataxis |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 discover | mark |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 eyes | amod |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 discover | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 discover | aux |
| 26 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 try | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 thief | det |
| 28 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 thief | amod |
| 29 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 discover | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | procession | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly up | present | procession's falcon | into the sky result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into sky=Result | ||||
| 3 | try | infinitive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | discover a condition, not said to happen | could | procession's sharp eyes | the old thief | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Topic |
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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