The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 92
Slipping his net quickly beneath it he drew it out and lifted the silk coverlet.
Who acts: bird · What happens: slip, draw out, lift · To what, where: net, silk coverlet
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 (bird), 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 | Slipping | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 drew | csubj |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 net | nmod:poss |
| 3 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Slipping | obj |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 1 Slipping | advmod |
| 5 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Slipping | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 drew | nsubj |
| 8 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 drew | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 drew | compound:prt |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lifted | cc |
| 12 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 drew | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 coverlet | det |
| 14 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 coverlet | compound |
| 15 | coverlet | coverlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lifted | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip | gerund | bird's net | beneath net; quickly property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent net=Patient | ||||
| 2 | draw out | past | bird | net | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lift | past | bird not said here | the silk coverlet | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coverlet=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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