The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 88
So the eagle took the younger sister to wife, and the owl the elder, and never was a home more peaceful than theirs!
Who acts: eagle, owl · What happens: take, elder, not be · To what, where: younger sister, home
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eagle | det |
| 3 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sister | det |
| 6 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 sister | amod |
| 7 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 wife | mark |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sister | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 elder | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 elder | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 owl | det |
| 13 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 elder | nsubj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 elder | det |
| 15 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 peaceful | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 peaceful | cc |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 home | advmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 home | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 home | det |
| 21 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 peaceful | nsubj |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 peaceful | advmod |
| 23 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 took | conj |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 theirs | case |
| 25 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 peaceful | obl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the eagle | the younger sister | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sister=Destination | ||||
| 2 | elder | the owl | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not is a | past | a home | tree rules |
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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