The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 23
Meanwhile the swallows had spoken again.
What happens: speak · To what, where: swallows · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 spoken | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 swallows | det |
| 3 | swallows | swallow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoken | aux |
| 5 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 spoken | advmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · perfect · passive | the swallows | again | meanwhile property | tree rules |
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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