The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 51
The hawk fell heavily under a big stone, severely wounded in its right wing.
Who acts: hawk · What happens: fall · To what, where: big stone
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hawk | det |
| 2 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 3 fell | advmod |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 stone | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stone | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stone | amod |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wounded | punct |
| 10 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 11 wounded | advmod |
| 11 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fell | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 wing | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wing | nmod:poss |
| 14 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wing | amod |
| 15 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wounded | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the hawk | a big stone | heavily property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under stone=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 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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