The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 14
The magpie listened, hopped awhile from branch to branch, and then darted away, the princess watching him anxiously as far as she could see.
Who acts: magpie, princess · What happens: listen, hop, dart away, watch, see · To what, where: branch, princess, magpie
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magpie, princess), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 magpie | det |
| 2 | magpie | magpie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 listened | nsubj |
| 3 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hopped | punct |
| 5 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 listened | conj |
| 6 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 5 hopped | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 branch | case |
| 8 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hopped | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 branch | case |
| 10 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hopped | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 darted | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 darted | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 darted | advmod |
| 14 | darted | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 listened | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 darted | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 princess | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 princess | det |
| 18 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 darted | obl |
| 19 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 princess | acl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 watching | obj |
| 21 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 23 far | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 far | advmod |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 watching | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 see | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 see | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 see | aux |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 far | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the magpie | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hop | past | the magpie not said here | branch | to branch; awhile property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to branch=Destination | |||
| 3 | dart away | past | the magpie not said here | the princess | then | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 4 | watch | gerund | the princess not said here | magpie | far property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 5 | see | could | princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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