The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 96
Next he put on the shape of a hawk, and in this form he reached the bounds of the prairie, he and the witch turning homewards at the moment.
Who acts: crow, witch · What happens: put, reach, turn · To what, where: shape, bounds, form, homewards
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (crow, witch), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 shape | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shape | det |
| 6 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 hawk | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hawk | det |
| 9 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shape | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reached | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 reached | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 form | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 form | det |
| 14 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reached | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 reached | nsubj |
| 16 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bounds | det |
| 18 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 reached | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 prairie | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 prairie | det |
| 21 | prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bounds | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 he | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 witch | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 witch | det |
| 26 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 he | conj |
| 27 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 witch | acl |
| 28 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 turning | obj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 moment | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 moment | det |
| 31 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 turning | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | crow | the shape of a hawk | next property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on shape=Destination | |||
| 2 | reach | past | crow | the bounds of the prairie | this form | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bound=Theme | |||
| 3 | turn | gerund | the witch not said here | homewards | moment | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent homeward=Theme |
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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