The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 92
But long though they watched, neither the owl nor the eagle ever came; neither that day nor the next, nor the next, nor the next.
Who acts: sisters, eagle · What happens: watch, come · To what, where: owl
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, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 watched | cc |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 watched | advmod |
| 3 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 watched | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 watched | nsubj |
| 5 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 owl | punct |
| 7 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 owl | cc:preconj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 owl | det |
| 9 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watched | obj |
| 10 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 eagle | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 eagle | det |
| 12 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 owl | conj |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 came | advmod |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 eagle | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 day | punct |
| 16 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 18 day | advmod |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watched | obl |
| 19 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 21 next | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 next | det |
| 21 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 day | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 next | punct |
| 23 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 25 next | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 next | det |
| 25 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 watched | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 next | punct |
| 27 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 29 next | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 next | det |
| 29 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 next | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | sisters = sister | the owl nor the eagle | day | long property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owl=Theme | ||
| 2 | come | past | the eagle not said here | ever | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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