The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 68
But the Prince, who was sorry for the poor bird, seized the branch of a tree and hit out at the ravens with it; terrified at this unexpected onslaught they flew away, leaving many of their number dead or wounded on the battlefield.
Who acts: Prince, ravens · What happens: be, seize, hit out, fly away, leave, wound · To what, where: branch, unexpected onslaught, many, battlefield
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 (Prince, ravens), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 seized | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 seized | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sorry | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 sorry | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sorry | cop |
| 7 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Prince | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 bird | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bird | amod |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sorry | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Prince | punct |
| 13 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 branch | det |
| 15 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seized | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 tree | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 branch | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hit | cc |
| 20 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seized | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 hit | compound:prt |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 ravens | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ravens | det |
| 24 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hit | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hit | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 terrified | punct |
| 28 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 seized | conj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 onslaught | case |
| 30 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 onslaught | det |
| 31 | unexpected | unexpected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 onslaught | amod |
| 32 | onslaught | onslaught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 terrified | obl |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 flew | nsubj |
| 34 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 onslaught | acl:relcl |
| 35 | away | away | ADV | _ | 34 flew | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 leaving | punct |
| 37 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 terrified | advcl |
| 38 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 leaving | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 number | case |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 number | nmod:poss |
| 41 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 many | nmod |
| 42 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 number | amod |
| 43 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 44 wounded | cc |
| 44 | wounded | wound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 dead | conj |
| 45 | on | on | ADP | _ | 47 battlefield | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 battlefield | det |
| 47 | battlefield | battlefield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 wounded | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Prince | for the poor bird; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | the Prince | the branch of a tree | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hit out | past | the Prince not said here | with number; at the ravens | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent at raven=Patient with it=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | fly away | past | ravens = raven | this unexpected onslaught not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location onslaught=Theme | |||
| 5 | leave | gerund | the Prince not said here | many of ravens's number | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme | ||||
| 6 | wound | participle | the Prince not said here | the battlefield | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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