The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 115

‘When I first came hither,’ said the eagle, ‘there was a rock here, and every evening I pecked at the stars from the top of it.

Who acts: I, eagle · What happens: come, say, be, peck · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, eagle), 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	_	9 said	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 came	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 came	advmod
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	advcl
6	hither	hither	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 eagle	det
11	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 here	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 was	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 was	punct
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 was	expl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 here	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 rock	det
17	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 was	nsubj
18	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 said	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pecked	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pecked	cc
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 evening	det
22	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pecked	obl:unmarked
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 pecked	nsubj
24	pecked	peck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 stars	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 stars	det
27	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 pecked	obl
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 top	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 top	det
30	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pecked	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 top	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	I		first, hither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the eagle		here property	tree rules
4	peck	past	I	evening	from the top of rock; at the stars	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at star=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 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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