The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 46
And she mounted the falcon's back, and they flew to their master.
Who acts: cat, scales · What happens: mount, fly · To what, where: back
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, 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 | _ | 3 mounted | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mounted | nsubj |
| 3 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 falcon | det |
| 5 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 back | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 falcon | case |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mounted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 flew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 flew | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 flew | nsubj |
| 11 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mounted | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 master | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 master | nmod:poss |
| 14 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flew | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | cat | the falcon's back | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | scales = scale | to scales's master result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to master=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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