The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 2
But the bird had guessed his intentions, and plunged beneath the water, carrying Houarn with him to the palace of the Groac’h.
Who acts: bird · What happens: guess, plunge, carry, intend · To what, where: bird, Houarn, palace
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 guessed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guessed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 guessed | aux |
| 5 | guessed | guess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 intentions | nmod:poss |
| 7 | intentions | intention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 guessed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 plunged | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 plunged | cc |
| 10 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 guessed | conj |
| 11 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 water | det |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plunged | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 carrying | punct |
| 15 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 plunged | advcl |
| 16 | Houarn | Houarn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 carrying | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 carrying | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 palace | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 palace | det |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carrying | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Groac’h | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Groac’h | det |
| 24 | Groac’h | Groac'h | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 palace | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 guessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | past · perfect · passive | the bird | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme intention=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | plunge | participle | beneath the water | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | Houarn | the palace of the Groac’h | with bird | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent houarn=Theme to palace=Destination | |||
| 4 | intend | bird | nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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