The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 53
In a moment he heard a rustling sound in the air beside him, and the King of the Eagles sank at his feet.
Who acts: last, King · What happens: hear, rustle, sink · To what, where: rustling sound, air, feet
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, King), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sound | det |
| 7 | rustling | rustle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 sound | amod |
| 8 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 air | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sound | nmod |
| 12 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 air | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sank | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sank | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sank | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Eagles | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Eagles | det |
| 20 | Eagles | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 King | nmod |
| 21 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 feet | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 feet | nmod:poss |
| 24 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sank | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | last | a rustling sound | the air beside sound | moment | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | rustle | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | sink | past | the King of the Eagles | last's feet | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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