The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 70
She swooped down upon a big apple-tree, and after shaking some golden apples from it, she pounced down upon the earth.
Who acts: drop · What happens: swoop down, shake, pounce down · To what, where: golden apples, arrival, earth
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 (drop), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 swooped | nsubj |
| 2 | swooped | swoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 swooped | advmod |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tree | amod |
| 7 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 apple | punct |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swooped | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pounced | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pounced | cc |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 13 shaking | mark |
| 13 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 pounced | advcl |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 apples | det |
| 15 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 apples | amod |
| 16 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shaking | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 apples | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shaking | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 pounced | nsubj |
| 21 | pounced | pounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 swooped | conj |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 21 pounced | advmod |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 earth | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 earth | det |
| 25 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pounced | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swoop down | past | drop | upon a big apple tree; down property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shake | gerund | drop not said here | some golden apples | arrival | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent apple=Theme from it=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | pounce down | past | drop | the earth | down property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon earth=Trajectory |
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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