The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 29

But not a bird was to be seen anywhere, till at length a blue falcon flew past him, and raising his bow he took aim at her.

Who acts: blue falcon, Falcon · What happens: see, fly, raise, take · To what, where: bird, length, bow, aim

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blue falcon, Falcon), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 seen	cc
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 bird	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seen	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seen	aux:pass
6	to	to	PART	_	8 seen	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 seen	aux:pass
8	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 seen	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 length	punct
11	till	till	ADP	_	13 length	case
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 length	case
13	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seen	obl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 falcon	det
15	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 falcon	amod
16	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flew	nsubj
17	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 length	acl:relcl
18	past	past	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 flew	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 took	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 took	cc
22	raising	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 took	csubj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 bow	nmod:poss
24	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 raising	obj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 took	nsubj
26	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seen	conj
27	aim	aim	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 took	obj
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 took	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · passive		a bird	till length	anywhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	fly	past	a blue falcon	length not said here		past bird	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent length=Theme past he=Trajectory
3	raise	gerund		bird's bow			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme
4	take	past	Falcon	aim		at mourning	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent aim=Theme at she=Asset

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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