The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 146
As they came near the borders of the kingdom of the Blue Mountains, however, the beef was done, and, when the Eagle looked over her shoulder, what was the Irishman at but throwing the stone between her tail and her neck!
Who acts: men, Eagle, shoulder · What happens: come, do, look, be, throw · To what, where: borders, beef, Irishman, stone, tail
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 (men, Eagle, shoulder), 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 | _ | 3 came | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 looked | advcl |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 borders | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 borders | det |
| 6 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 kingdom | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kingdom | det |
| 9 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 borders | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Mountains | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Mountains | det |
| 12 | Blue | Blue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Mountains | compound |
| 13 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 kingdom | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 done | punct |
| 15 | however | however | ADV | _ | 20 done | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 however | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 beef | det |
| 18 | beef | beef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 done | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 done | aux:pass |
| 20 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 looked | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 looked | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 looked | punct |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 looked | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Eagle | det |
| 26 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 looked | nsubj |
| 27 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | over | over | ADP | _ | 30 shoulder | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 30 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 looked | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Irishman | punct |
| 32 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 35 Irishman | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 Irishman | cop |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Irishman | det |
| 35 | Irishman | Irishman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 shoulder | nmod |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 throwing | case |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 throwing | cc |
| 38 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 looked | advcl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 stone | det |
| 40 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 throwing | obj |
| 41 | between | between | ADP | _ | 43 tail | case |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 tail | nmod:poss |
| 43 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 stone | nmod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 neck | cc |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 neck | nmod:poss |
| 46 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 stone | conj |
| 47 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 27 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | men = man | the borders of the kingdom of the Blue Mountains | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near border=Location | ||||
| 2 | do | past · passive | the beef | however property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | look | past | the Eagle | over noise's shoulder | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over shoulder=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | noise's shoulder | the Irishman | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | throw | gerund | the Eagle not said here | the stone and noise's neck | noise's tail | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme between tail=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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