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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 happened | obl |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 heard | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 heard | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 night | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 night | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 last | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Princess | det |
| 14 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happened | conj |
| 16 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 flutter | compound |
| 17 | flutter | flutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heard | obj |
| 18 | against | against | ADP | _ | 20 window | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 window | nmod:poss |
| 20 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heard | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 saw | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 saw | cc |
| 23 | drawing | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 saw | csubj |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 drawing | advmod |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 curtains | nmod:poss |
| 26 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 drawing | obj |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 saw | nsubj |
| 28 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happened | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 moonlight | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 moonlight | det |
| 31 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 saw | obl |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 Eagle | mark |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 Eagle | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 Eagle | cop |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 Eagle | det |
| 36 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 saw | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | nothing | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | last | something flutter | against Princess's window | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer flutter=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | draw back | gerund | Princess's curtains | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtain=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | past | Princess | the moonlight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | flutter | a Eagle | tree 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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