The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 25

The falcon flew to a tree and spread his wings in the sun to dry, but the cat, after giving herself a good shake, began to scratch up the sandy banks and to throw the bits into the stream.

Who acts: falcon · What happens: fly, spread, dry, give, begin, scratch up · To what, where: wings, sun, good shake, cat, sandy banks, bits

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 falcon	det
2	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 spread	cc
8	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wings	nmod:poss
10	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spread	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 sun	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sun	det
13	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spread	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 dry	mark
15	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 spread	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cat	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 cat	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cat	det
19	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 giving	punct
21	after	after	SCONJ	_	22 giving	mark
22	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 flew	advcl
23	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 giving	iobj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 shake	det
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 shake	amod
26	shake	shake	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 giving	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 began	punct
28	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 scratch	mark
30	scratch	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 began	xcomp
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 scratch	compound:prt
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 banks	det
33	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 banks	amod
34	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 scratch	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 throw	cc
36	to	to	PART	_	37 throw	mark
37	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 scratch	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 bits	det
39	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 throw	obj
40	into	into	ADP	_	42 stream	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 stream	det
42	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 throw	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the falcon				to a tree result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tree=Result
2	spread	past	the falcon not said here	falcon's wings		the sun		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wing=Theme in sun=Destination
3	dry	to-infinitive	the falcon not said here					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	give	gerund	the falcon not said here	a good shake	cat			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient shake=Theme
5	begin	past	the falcon not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	scratch up	to-infinitive	the falcon not said here	the sandy banks				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bank=Theme
7	throw	to-infinitive	the falcon not said here	the bits			into the stream result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer bit=Theme into stream=Result

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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