The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 7
By-and-by they entered a rocky pass between two mountains, and here they saw an eagle which had been caught in a hunter's net.
Who acts: loaves · What happens: enter, see, catch · To what, where: rocky pass, eagle, net
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 (loaves), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 - | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 entered | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 entered | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 entered | case |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 entered | nsubj |
| 7 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pass | det |
| 9 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pass | amod |
| 10 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entered | obj |
| 11 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 mountains | case |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 mountains | nummod |
| 13 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pass | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saw | cc |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 saw | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 entered | conj |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 eagle | det |
| 20 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 caught | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 caught | aux:pass |
| 24 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 eagle | acl:relcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 net | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 hunter | det |
| 27 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 net | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 hunter | case |
| 29 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 caught | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | loaves = loaf | a rocky pass | between two mountains | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pass=Destination | |||
| 2 | see | past | loaves = loaf | a eagle | here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eagle=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | catch | past · perfect · passive | a eagle | a hunter's net | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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