The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 181
To-day I was going in search of a large eagle that I had shot, and instead of the eagle I have found--you.’
Who acts: I · What happens: go, shoot, find, search · To what, where: search, large eagle, you
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 going | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 going | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 going | aux |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 search | case |
| 8 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 going | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 eagle | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 eagle | det |
| 11 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eagle | amod |
| 12 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 search | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 shot | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 shot | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 shot | aux |
| 16 | shot | shoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 eagle | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 found | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 found | cc |
| 19 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 22 eagle | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 instead | fixed |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 eagle | det |
| 22 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 found | obl |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 found | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 found | aux |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 shot | parataxis |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 you | punct |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 found | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 going | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | I | search of a large eagle | day | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location | |||
| 2 | shoot | past · perfect · passive | a large eagle | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | present · perfect | I | you | instead the eagle | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | search | a large eagle | nom search «act transitive»: of=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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