The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 53
In a little while he heard a rustling over his head, and looking up, he saw a turtle dove watching him with her bright eyes.
Who acts: boy, turtle dove · What happens: hear, look up, see, watch · To what, where: rustling, head, turtle dove, boy
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: who acts (boy, turtle dove), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 while | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 while | amod |
| 4 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rustling | det |
| 8 | rustling | rustling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rustling | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saw | cc |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 saw | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 looking | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looking | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 dove | det |
| 20 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dove | compound |
| 21 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obj |
| 22 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 dove | acl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 watching | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 eyes | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 eyes | amod |
| 27 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 watching | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | boy | a rustling | boy's head | while | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rustling=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | look up | gerund | boy not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | past | boy | a turtle dove | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dove=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | watch | gerund | a turtle dove not said here | boy | with woman's bright eyes | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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