The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 54
Limping across at her utmost speed she threw the window open, and the great Eagle sailed in beating with his wings for joy.
Who acts: Princess, great Eagle · What happens: limp, throw, sail, beat · To what, where: utmost speed, window
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 (Princess, great 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 | Limping | limp | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 threw | csubj |
| 2 | across | across | ADV | _ | 1 Limping | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 speed | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 speed | nmod:poss |
| 5 | utmost | utmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 speed | amod |
| 6 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Limping | obl |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 threw | nsubj |
| 8 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 window | det |
| 10 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | obj |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 threw | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sailed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sailed | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Eagle | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Eagle | amod |
| 16 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sailed | nsubj |
| 17 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 threw | conj |
| 18 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 19 beating | mark |
| 19 | beating | beat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 sailed | advcl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 wings | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wings | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 beating | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 joy | case |
| 24 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beating | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | limp | gerund | Princess's utmost speed | across property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | Princess | the window | open property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Theme | |||
| 3 | sail | past | the great Eagle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | beat | gerund | the great Eagle not said here | with last's wings; for joy | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with wing=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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