The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 12
Almost directly Iwanich saw his two horses being driven towards him by a host of eagles of all sizes.
Who acts: Iwanich, host · What happens: see, drive · To what, where: two horses · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (Iwanich, host), 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 | Almost | almost | ADV | _ | 2 directly | advmod |
| 2 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | Iwanich | Iwanich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horses | nmod:poss |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 horses | nummod |
| 7 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 driven | aux:pass |
| 9 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 driven | obl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 host | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 host | det |
| 14 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 driven | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 eagles | case |
| 16 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 host | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sizes | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 sizes | det |
| 19 | sizes | size | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 eagles | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Iwanich | directly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | drive | gerund · passive | a host of eagles of all sizes | Iwanich's two horses | towards Iwanich | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme towards he=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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