The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 19
Now all this time neither the cat nor the falcon had had any food, and the falcon soon got tired carrying such a heavy burden.
Who acts: cat, falcon · What happens: have, get, carry · To what, where: food, heavy burden
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 had | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 time | det:predet |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 cat | cc:preconj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cat | det |
| 7 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | nsubj |
| 8 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 falcon | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 falcon | det |
| 10 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cat | conj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | aux |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 food | det |
| 14 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 got | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 got | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 falcon | det |
| 18 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 got | nsubj |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 got | advmod |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | parataxis |
| 21 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 got | xcomp |
| 22 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 got | xcomp |
| 23 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 burden | det:predet |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 burden | det |
| 25 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 burden | amod |
| 26 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carrying | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past · perfect | the cat nor the falcon | any food | now; time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | |||
| 2 | get | past | the falcon | soon, tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | the falcon not said here | such heavy burden | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burden=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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