The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 329
Now the Seagull was seated at the window, mending her net, and from time to time her eyes wandered to the sea as if she was expecting someone.
Who acts: eyes, Seagull · What happens: seat, mend, wander, expect · To what, where: Seagull, window, net, sea, someone
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, Seagull), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 Seagull | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Seagull | det |
| 3 | Seagull | Seagull | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seated | aux:pass |
| 5 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 window | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 window | det |
| 8 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seated | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mending | punct |
| 10 | mending | mend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 seated | advcl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 net | nmod:poss |
| 12 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mending | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wandered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wandered | cc |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wandered | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 time | nmod |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 wandered | nsubj |
| 21 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seated | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 sea | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sea | det |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wandered | obl |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 expecting | mark |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 expecting | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 expecting | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 expecting | aux |
| 29 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 wandered | advcl |
| 30 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 29 expecting | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past · passive | the Seagull | the window | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | ||||
| 2 | mend | gerund | Seagull's net | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wander | past | Seagull's eyes | the sea | time | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sea=Destination | |||
| 4 | expect | past · progressive | Seagull | someone | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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