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The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 53

For three days nothing happened, but at last in the night the Princess heard something flutter against her window, and drawing back her curtains she saw in the moonlight that it was an Eagle.

Who acts: nothing, last, Princess, flutter · What happens: happen, hear, draw back, see, be · To what, where: something flutter, curtains, moonlight, Eagle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, last, Princess, flutter), 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

casenummodoblnsubjpunctcccasensubjcasedetobldetnsubjconjcompoundobjcasenmod:possoblpunctcccsubjadvmodnmod:possobjnsubjconjcasedetoblmarknsubjcopdetoblpunctrootForADPthreeNUMdaysNOUNnothingPRONhappenedVERB,PUNCTbutCCONJatADPlastADJinADPtheDETnightNOUNtheDETPrincessPROPNheardVERBsomethingPRONflutterNOUNagainstADPherPRONwindowNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJdrawingVERBbackADVherPRONcurtainsNOUNshePRONsawVERBinADPtheDETmoonlightNOUNthatSCONJitPRONwasAUXanDETEaglePROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ForforADP_3 dayscase
2threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card3 daysnummod
3daysdayNOUNNumber=Plur5 happenedobl
4nothingnothingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Neg5 happenednsubj
5happenedhappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6,,PUNCT_15 heardpunct
7butbutCCONJ_15 heardcc
8atatADP_9 lastcase
9lastlastADJDegree=Pos15 heardnsubj
10ininADP_12 nightcase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 nightdet
12nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing9 lastobl
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 Princessdet
14PrincessPrincessPROPNNumber=Sing15 heardnsubj
15heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 happenedconj
16somethingsomethingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind17 fluttercompound
17flutterflutterNOUNNumber=Sing15 heardobj
18againstagainstADP_20 windowcase
19herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 windownmod:poss
20windowwindowNOUNNumber=Sing15 heardobl
21,,PUNCT_28 sawpunct
22andandCCONJ_28 sawcc
23drawingdrawVERBVerbForm=Ger28 sawcsubj
24backbackADV_23 drawingadvmod
25herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 curtainsnmod:poss
26curtainscurtainNOUNNumber=Plur23 drawingobj
27sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 sawnsubj
28sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 happenedconj
29ininADP_31 moonlightcase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 moonlightdet
31moonlightmoonlightNOUNNumber=Sing28 sawobl
32thatthatSCONJ_36 Eaglemark
33ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs36 Eaglensubj
34wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 Eaglecop
35anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art36 Eagledet
36EagleEaglePROPNNumber=Sing28 sawobl
37..PUNCT_5 happenedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1happenpastnothingdayvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2hearpastlastsomething flutteragainst Princess's windowvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer flutter=Stimulus
3draw backgerundPrincess's curtainsvn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtain=Theme
4seepastPrincessthe moonlightvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5is apastfluttera Eagletree rules

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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