The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 89
Yes, there it was at last; and as she moved, a big awkward bird tumbled head foremost on the ground.
Who acts: blast, duck · What happens: be, move, tumble · To what, where: bird tumbled head, ground
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blast, duck), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 last | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 last | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 last | expl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 last | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 last | cop |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 last | case |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 moved | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 moved | cc |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 moved | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 moved | nsubj |
| 12 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 last | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bird | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bird | det |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bird | amod |
| 16 | awkward | awkward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bird | amod |
| 17 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 head | compound |
| 18 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 head | amod |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 moved | obj |
| 20 | foremost | foremost | ADV | _ | 12 moved | advmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 ground | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ground | det |
| 23 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 moved | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | blast | there | last property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | move | past | duck | bird tumbled head | the ground | foremost property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||
| 3 | tumble | participle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/8/89/