The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 76
But the Eagle, uttering a dolorous cry, fluttered his broad wings and disappeared.
Who acts: Eagle · What happens: utter, flutter, disappear · To what, where: dolorous cry, broad wings
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 fluttered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Eagle | det |
| 3 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fluttered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 uttering | punct |
| 5 | uttering | utter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Eagle | acl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cry | det |
| 7 | dolorous | dolorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cry | amod |
| 8 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 uttering | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fluttered | punct |
| 10 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wings | nmod:poss |
| 12 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wings | amod |
| 13 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fluttered | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 disappeared | cc |
| 15 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fluttered | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fluttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | gerund | the Eagle not said here | a dolorous cry | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic | ||||
| 2 | flutter | past | the Eagle | prince's broad wings | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | disappear | past | the Eagle not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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