The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 51
As he sat thus lost in thought, he noticed an eagle flying over his head.
Who acts: last, eagle · What happens: lose, notice, fly · To what, where: last, thought, eagle, head
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, eagle), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 lost | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | aux:pass |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 lost | advmod |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 noticed | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 thought | case |
| 7 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lost | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lost | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 noticed | nsubj |
| 10 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 eagle | det |
| 12 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 noticed | obj |
| 13 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 eagle | acl |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 head | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flying | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · passive | last | thought | thus property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | notice | past | last | a eagle | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer eagle=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | a eagle not said here | last's head | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Location |
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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