The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 11
And when the meshes were cut, and the eagle was free, the horse galloped on.
Who acts: eagle, horse · What happens: cut, be, gallop · To what, where: meshes
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle, horse), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cut | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 cut | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 meshes | det |
| 4 | meshes | mesh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cut | aux:pass |
| 6 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 free | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 free | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eagle | det |
| 10 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 free | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 free | cop |
| 12 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cut | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 galloped | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 galloped | nsubj |
| 16 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 free | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADV | _ | 16 galloped | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | past · passive | the meshes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the eagle | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | gallop | past | the horse | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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