The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 86
As they flew nearer, the old birds saw the prince lying under the tree and no sign of life in the nest.
Who acts: parents, old birds, prince · What happens: fly, see, lie, sign · To what, where: prince, tree, life
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, old birds, prince), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 flew | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | advcl |
| 4 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 flew | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 birds | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 birds | amod |
| 8 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 12 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 prince | acl |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lying | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sign | cc |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 sign | det |
| 18 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tree | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 life | case |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sign | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 nest | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 nest | det |
| 23 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lying | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | parents = parent | near property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the old birds | the prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | the prince not said here | the tree and no sign of life | in the nest | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | |||
| 4 | sign | life | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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