The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 14

‘If the hoary hawk of the rock were only here, he would soon have that duck,’ cried the king; and as he spoke the hoary hawk was seen hovering above them, with the duck in his mouth.

Who acts: hoary hawk, hawk · What happens: be, have, cry, speak, see, hover · To what, where: duck, king, hoary hawk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hoary hawk, hawk), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	11 here	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hawk	det
4	hoary	hoary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hawk	amod
5	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 here	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 rock	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rock	det
8	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hawk	nmod
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 here	cop
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 here	advmod
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 have	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 here	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 have	aux
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 have	advmod
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 cried	ccomp
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 duck	det
18	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
21	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 king	det
23	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cried	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 spoke	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 spoke	cc
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 spoke	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 spoke	nsubj
28	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 cried	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hawk	det
30	hoary	hoary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hawk	amod
31	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seen	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 seen	aux:pass
33	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 spoke	ccomp
34	hovering	hover	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 seen	xcomp
35	above	above	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 hovering	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 duck	punct
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 duck	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 duck	det
40	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hovering	obl
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 mouth	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 mouth	nmod:poss
43	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 duck	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the hoary hawk of the rock		here property	tree rules
2	have	would	hawk	that duck	soon property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Patient
3	cry speech: express	past		the king		tree rules
4	speak speech: other	past	hawk			tree rules
5	see	past · passive		the hoary hawk		tree rules
6	hover	gerund	the hoary hawk not said here		above king; with the duck in hawk's mouth	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above they=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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