The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 35
And in an instant his scales might be seen flashing quickly along.
Who acts: scales · What happens: see, flash · To what, where: scales, instant
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 (scales), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 seen | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 instant | case |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 instant | det |
| 4 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seen | obl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 scales | nmod:poss |
| 6 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 seen | aux:pass |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | flashing | flash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 seen | xcomp |
| 11 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 10 flashing | advmod |
| 12 | along | along | ADV | _ | 10 flashing | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | might · passive | falcon's scales | a instant | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flash | gerund | falcon's scales not said here | along, quickly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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