The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 93
So the Eagle flew on a long, long way, but then it grew tired and sat down on a fir tree.
Who acts: Eagle, wood · What happens: fly, grow, sit down · To what, where: long long way, fir tree
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eagle, wood), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Eagle | det |
| 3 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 way | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 long | punct |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 way | amod |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grew | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 grew | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 grew | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 grew | nsubj |
| 15 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 16 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grew | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sat | cc |
| 18 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 grew | conj |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 sat | compound:prt |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 tree | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 22 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tree | compound |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sat | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the Eagle | a long long way | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on way=Location | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | wood | then | tired property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | sit down | past | wood not said here | a fir tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=Location |
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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