The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 99

Then she swooped down, and, hiding herself behind a buttress so that she could not be detected from below, she set herself to dig out the nearest blue stones with her beak.

Who acts: Eagle · What happens: swoop down, hide, not detect, set, dig out · To what, where: Eagle, buttress, nearest blue stones

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eagle), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 swooped	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swooped	nsubj
3	swooped	swoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 swooped	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hiding	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hiding	cc
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hiding	punct
8	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 swooped	advcl
9	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 hiding	obj
10	behind	behind	ADP	_	12 buttress	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 buttress	det
12	buttress	buttress	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hiding	obl
13	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	19 detected	mark
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 so	fixed
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 detected	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 detected	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 detected	advmod
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 detected	aux:pass
19	detected	detect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 hiding	advcl
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 below	case
21	below	below	ADV	_	19 detected	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 set	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 set	nsubj
24	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swooped	conj
25	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 set	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 dig	mark
27	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 set	xcomp
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 dig	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 stones	det
30	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 stones	amod
31	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 stones	amod
32	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 dig	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 beak	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 beak	nmod:poss
35	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dig	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swooped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swoop down	past	Eagle			then		tree rules
2	hide	gerund	Eagle not said here	Eagle	a buttress			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient behind buttress=Location
3	not detect	could · passive		Eagle				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
4	set	past	Eagle	Eagle				tree rules
5	dig out	to-infinitive	Eagle not said here	the nearest blue stones			with Eagle's beak	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent stone=Theme with beak=Instrument

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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