The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 127
After he had run over them all, however, he missed a big Eagle that was wanting, and wondered that it had not come.
Who acts: Irishman, big Eagle, Eagle · What happens: run, miss, want, wonder, not come · To what, where: big Eagle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Irishman, big Eagle, 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 run | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 run | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | aux |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 missed | advcl |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 run | obl:agent |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 however | punct |
| 9 | however | however | ADV | _ | 4 run | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 missed | nsubj |
| 12 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Eagle | det |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Eagle | amod |
| 15 | Eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 missed | obj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 wanting | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wanting | aux |
| 18 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 Eagle | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wondered | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wondered | cc |
| 21 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 missed | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 come | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 come | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 come | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 come | advmod |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 wondered | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 missed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past · perfect | Irishman | however property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | miss | past | Irishman | a big Eagle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eagle=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | want | past · progressive | a big Eagle | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | past | Irishman not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | not come | past | Eagle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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