The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 58
Towards evening the Prince heard a mighty rushing sound in the air, and when he looked up he saw thousands of eagles driving the mare before them.
Who acts: Prince, eagles · What happens: hear, rush, look up, see, drive · To what, where: mighty rushing sound, air, thousands, mare
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 (Prince, eagles), 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 | Towards | toward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 evening | compound |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sound | det |
| 7 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sound | amod |
| 8 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 sound | amod |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 air | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 air | det |
| 12 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sound | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 looked | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 saw | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 looked | compound:prt |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 21 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 saw | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 eagles | case |
| 23 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 thousands | nmod |
| 24 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 eagles | acl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 mare | det |
| 26 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 driving | obj |
| 27 | before | before | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 driving | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Prince | a mighty rushing sound | the air | evening | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | rush | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | look up | past | Prince | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | see | past | Prince | thousands of eagles | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thousand=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | drive | gerund | eagles not said here | the mare | before Eagles = eagle | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mare=Theme before they=Destination |
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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