The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 67
Full of curiosity, Iwanich hurried up to the spot, and saw that a large number of ravens had attacked an eagle, and although the eagle was big and powerful and was making a brave fight, it was overpowered at last by numbers, and had to give in.
Who acts: Full Iwanich, eagle, numbers · What happens: hurry up, see, attack, be, make, overpower · To what, where: spot, large number, brave fight, eagle, last · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Full Iwanich, eagle, numbers), 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 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Iwanich | amod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 curiosity | case |
| 3 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Full | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Full | punct |
| 5 | Iwanich | Iwanich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hurried | nsubj |
| 6 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 hurried | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 spot | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spot | det |
| 10 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hurried | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hurried | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 attacked | mark |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 number | det |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 number | amod |
| 17 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 attacked | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 ravens | case |
| 19 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 number | nmod |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 attacked | aux |
| 21 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 saw | ccomp |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 eagle | det |
| 23 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 attacked | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 overpowered | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 overpowered | cc |
| 26 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 30 big | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 eagle | det |
| 28 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 big | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 big | cop |
| 30 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 overpowered | advcl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 powerful | cc |
| 32 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 big | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 making | cc |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 making | aux |
| 35 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 big | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 fight | det |
| 37 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 fight | amod |
| 38 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 making | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 big | punct |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 overpowered | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 overpowered | aux:pass |
| 42 | overpowered | overpower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 hurried | conj |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 44 last | case |
| 44 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 overpowered | obl |
| 45 | by | by | ADP | _ | 46 numbers | case |
| 46 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 overpowered | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 had | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 had | cc |
| 49 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hurried | conj |
| 50 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 give | mark |
| 51 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 had | xcomp |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 give | compound:prt |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry up | past | Full Iwanich | the spot | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to spot=Destination | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Full Iwanich not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | attack | past · perfect · passive | a large number of ravens | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the eagle | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | the eagle not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | make | past · progressive | the eagle not said here | a brave fight | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fight=Product | ||||
| 7 | overpower | past · passive | numbers | eagle | last | tree rules | |||
| 8 | have | past | Full Iwanich not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | give in | to-infinitive | Full Iwanich not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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