The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 50
He saw the hawk swooping down upon the church, and in a moment he had seized his gun and shot at the bird.
Who acts: sleep, hawk · What happens: see, swoop down, seize · To what, where: hawk, gun
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sleep, hawk), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hawk | det |
| 4 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | swooping | swoop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 hawk | acl |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 swooping | advmod |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 church | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 church | det |
| 9 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swooping | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seized | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 seized | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 moment | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 moment | det |
| 14 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seized | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 seized | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 seized | aux |
| 17 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 saw | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 gun | nmod:poss |
| 19 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seized | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 shot | cc |
| 21 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gun | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 bird | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bird | det |
| 24 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seized | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | sleep | the hawk | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hawk=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | swoop down | gerund | the hawk not said here | upon the church; down property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | seize | past · perfect | sleep | sleep's gun and shot | moment | at the bird | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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