The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 67
So Jose called to the eagle, and the eagle flew to the top of the tree and brought back the handkerchief in its beak.
Who acts: eagle · What happens: call, fly, bring back · To what, where: Jose, eagle, handkerchief, beak · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | _ | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | Jose | Jose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 eagle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eagle | det |
| 6 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 flew | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 flew | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eagle | det |
| 10 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flew | nsubj |
| 11 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 top | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 top | det |
| 14 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flew | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 tree | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 top | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 brought | cc |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 flew | conj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 brought | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 handkerchief | det |
| 22 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 beak | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 beak | nmod:poss |
| 25 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | participle · passive | Jose | the eagle | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to eagle=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | the eagle | to the top of the tree result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to top=Result | ||||
| 3 | bring back | past | the eagle not said here | the handkerchief | handkerchief's beak | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent handkerchief=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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