The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 97
Then the boy stole softly up, and caught it by the wing.
Who acts: boy · What happens: steal up, catch · To what, where: beak
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stole | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stole | nsubj |
| 4 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 4 stole | advmod |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 stole | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 caught | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 caught | cc |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stole | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 caught | obj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 wing | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wing | det |
| 13 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal up | past | the boy | then | softly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | catch | past | the boy not said here | beak | by the wing | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 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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