The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 80
‘It is almost night,’ he thought; ‘I will make a fire and rest,’ and thus he did, and when the flames blazed up, the hoary hawk of the grey rock flew on to a bough above him.
Who acts: cliff, king, I, flames, hoary hawk · What happens: be, think, make, do, blaze up, fly on · To what, where: night, fire · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cliff, king, I, flames), 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 | _ | 5 night | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 night | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 night | cop |
| 4 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 night | advmod |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 night | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 night | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 make | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | aux |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fire | det |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rest | cc |
| 18 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fire | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 did | cc |
| 22 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 24 did | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 did | nsubj |
| 24 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 blazed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 blazed | cc |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 blazed | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 flames | det |
| 29 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 blazed | nsubj |
| 30 | blazed | blaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | parataxis |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 blazed | compound:prt |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 flew | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 hawk | det |
| 34 | hoary | hoary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 hawk | amod |
| 35 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 flew | nsubj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 rock | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 rock | det |
| 38 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 rock | amod |
| 39 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hawk | nmod |
| 40 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 blazed | conj |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 flew | compound:prt |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 bough | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 bough | det |
| 44 | bough | bough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 flew | obl |
| 45 | above | above | ADP | _ | 46 him | case |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 bough | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | cliff | night | almost property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | king | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | future | I | a fire and rest | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | ||||
| 4 | do | past | king | thus property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | blaze up | past | the flames | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | fly on | past | the hoary hawk of the grey rock | to a bough above king result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to bough=Result |
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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