The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 101
The eagles and the gulls looked on from their nests as he passed, leaving the deer behind him; but at length he stopped, for hunger had seized on him, and he could walk no more.
Who acts: eagles, blessing, hunger · What happens: look on, pass, leave, stop, seize, walk · To what, where: deer, length
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagles, blessing, hunger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3027:1903): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 eagles | det |
| 2 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gulls | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gulls | det |
| 5 | gulls | gull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 eagles | conj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 looked | compound:prt |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 nests | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 nests | nmod:poss |
| 10 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looked | obl |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 passed | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 passed | nsubj |
| 13 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looked | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leaving | punct |
| 15 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 passed | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 deer | det |
| 17 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leaving | obj |
| 18 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 leaving | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 stopped | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 stopped | cc |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 length | case |
| 23 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stopped | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 stopped | nsubj |
| 25 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looked | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 seized | punct |
| 27 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 seized | mark |
| 28 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 seized | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 seized | aux |
| 30 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 stopped | advcl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 seized | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 walk | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 walk | cc |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 walk | nsubj |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 walk | aux |
| 37 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 seized | conj |
| 38 | no | no | ADV | _ | 39 more | advmod |
| 39 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 37 walk | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look on | past | the eagles and the gulls | from eagles's nests | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from nest=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | blessing | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | blessing not said here | the deer | behind blessing | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent deer=Theme behind he=Location | |||
| 4 | stop | past | blessing | length | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location | ||||
| 5 | seize | past · perfect | hunger | on blessing | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | walk | could | blessing | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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