The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 120

The sun had not yet risen before the falcon soared high into the air, the cat seated on his back, with his paws tightly clasping the bird's neck.

Who acts: falcon, paws · What happens: not rise, soar, seat, clasp · To what, where: sun, air, cat, back, neck

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 (falcon, paws), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 risen	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 risen	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 risen	advmod
5	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 risen	advmod
6	risen	rise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 soared	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 falcon	det
9	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 soared	nsubj
10	soared	soar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 risen	advcl
11	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 soared	advmod
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 air	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 air	det
14	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 soared	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cat	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cat	det
17	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 air	appos
18	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 cat	acl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 back	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 back	nmod:poss
21	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seated	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 paws	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 paws	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 paws	nmod:poss
25	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 soared	obl
26	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	27 clasping	advmod
27	clasping	clasp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 paws	acl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bird	det
29	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 neck	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 bird	case
31	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 clasping	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 risen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not rise	past · perfect · passive		the sun		yet		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	soar	past	the falcon		the air		with falcon's paws; high property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into air=Trajectory
3	seat	participle		the cat not said here	falcon's back			vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
4	clasp	gerund	falcon's paws not said here	the bird's neck			tightly property	vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=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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