The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 80
But by-and-by they opened their eyes and saw the two birds watching them.
Who acts: sisters, two birds · What happens: open, see, watch · To what, where: eyes, two birds, sisters
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 (sisters, two birds), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 opened | cc |
| 2 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 opened | mark |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 opened | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 opened | cc |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 and | punct |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 opened | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 opened | nsubj |
| 8 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 opened | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 opened | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 birds | det |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 birds | nummod |
| 15 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 saw | obj |
| 16 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 birds | acl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 watching | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | sisters = sister | sisters's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | sisters = sister not said here | the two birds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | watch | gerund | the two birds not said here | sisters = sister | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/26/80/