The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 89

Whenever the sheep looked up, she still saw him flying, flying across the plain; and, for all I know, he may be flying across it still.

Who acts: sheep, One, jackal, I, all · What happens: look up, see, fly, know · To what, where: jackal, plain

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheep, One, jackal, I), 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	Whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 looked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sheep	det
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	advcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 looked	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 saw	advmod
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	obj
11	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 saw	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 flying	punct
13	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 flying	conj
14	across	across	ADP	_	16 plain	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 plain	det
16	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flying	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 flying	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 flying	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 all	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 all	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 flying	nsubj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 know	nsubj
23	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 all	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 all	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 flying	nsubj
26	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 flying	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 flying	aux
28	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 saw	advcl
29	across	across	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 flying	obl
31	still	still	ADV	_	28 flying	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look up	past	the sheep				whenever property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	past	One	jackal		still		tree rules
3	fly	gerund	jackal not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fly	gerund	jackal not said here		the plain			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across plain=Trajectory
5	know	present	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	fly	may · progressive	all		plain	still		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across it=Trajectory

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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