The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 76
The eagle looked at the owl and the owl looked at the eagle.
Who acts: eagle, owl · What happens: look
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle, owl), 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 eagle | det |
| 2 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 owl | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 owl | det |
| 6 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looked | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 owl | det |
| 9 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 eagle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 eagle | det |
| 13 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the eagle | at the owl | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at owl=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the owl | at the eagle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at eagle=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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