The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 66

A short time after this, when he was going early one morning to the usual grazing place with his horses, he noticed a flock of birds assembled together making a great noise and flying wildly backwards and forwards.

Who acts: Iwanich · What happens: go, notice, assemble, make, fly · To what, where: usual grazing place, flock, birds, great noise

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iwanich), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 time	amod
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 noticed	obl:unmarked
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 this	case
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 going	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 going	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 going	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 going	aux
10	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 time	parataxis
11	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 one	advmod
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 morning	nummod
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 going	obl:unmarked
14	to	to	ADP	_	18 place	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 place	det
16	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 place	amod
17	grazing	grazing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 place	compound
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 going	obl
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 horses	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 horses	nmod:poss
21	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 place	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 time	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 noticed	nsubj
24	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 flock	det
26	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 noticed	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 birds	case
28	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 flock	nmod
29	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 birds	acl
30	together	together	ADV	_	29 assembled	advmod
31	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 assembled	advcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 noise	det
33	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 noise	amod
34	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 making	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 flying	cc
36	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 making	conj
37	wildly	wildly	ADV	_	36 flying	advmod
38	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	36 flying	advmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 forwards	cc
40	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	38 backwards	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	Iwanich		the usual grazing place with Iwanich's horses	morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
2	notice	past	Iwanich	a flock of birds		time		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer flock=Stimulus
3	assemble	participle		birds not said here			together property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make	gerund		a great noise				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product
5	fly	gerund					backwards, wildly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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