The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 127
Does the lark soar as high as ever?
Who acts: lark · What happens: soar
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 (lark), 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 | Does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 soar | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lark | det |
| 3 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 soar | nsubj |
| 4 | soar | soar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 high | advmod |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 soar | xcomp |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 ever | case |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 high | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 soar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soar | present · do-support | the lark | high property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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