The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 75
Farther along the hillside they saw an eagle whose leg was caught in a snare.
Who acts: bread · What happens: see, catch · To what, where: eagle, leg, snare
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bread), 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 | Farther | farther | ADV | _ | 6 saw | advmod |
| 2 | along | along | ADP | _ | 4 hillside | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hillside | det |
| 4 | hillside | hillside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 eagle | det |
| 8 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 leg | nmod:poss |
| 10 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 caught | aux:pass |
| 12 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 eagle | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 snare | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 snare | det |
| 15 | snare | snare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 caught | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | bread | a eagle | along the hillside; farther property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eagle=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | catch | past · passive | leg | a snare | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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