The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 30
His eye was straight and his hand steady, but the falcon's flight was swift, and he only shot a feather from her wing.
Who acts: eye, flight, Falcon · What happens: be, shoot · To what, where: feather, wing
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 (eye, flight, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eye | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 steady | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 steady | cop |
| 4 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 8 steady | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 steady | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 steady | nsubj |
| 8 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 swift | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 swift | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 falcon | det |
| 12 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flight | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 falcon | case |
| 14 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swift | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 swift | cop |
| 16 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 steady | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 shot | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 shot | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 shot | nsubj |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 shot | advmod |
| 21 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 steady | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 feather | det |
| 23 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shot | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 wing | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wing | nmod:poss |
| 26 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shot | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 steady | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Falcon's eye | steady, straight property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the falcon's flight | swift property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shoot | past | Falcon | a feather | mourning's wing | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent feather=Theme from wing=Initial_Location |
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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