The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 19
A night-owl with glowing eyes flew three times round her, and screeched three times ‘tu-whit, tu-whit, tu-whoo.’
Who acts: night owl · What happens: glow, fly, screech · To what, where: tu whit
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night owl), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 owl | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 owl | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 night | punct |
| 4 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | nsubj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 eyes | case |
| 6 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 eyes | amod |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 owl | nmod |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 times | nummod |
| 10 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flew | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | round | round | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 flew | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 screeched | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 screeched | cc |
| 15 | screeched | screech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flew | conj |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 times | nummod |
| 17 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 screeched | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 whit | punct |
| 19 | tu | tu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 whit | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 tu | punct |
| 21 | whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 screeched | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 whit | punct |
| 23 | tu | tu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 whit | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 tu | punct |
| 25 | whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 whit | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 whoo | punct |
| 27 | tu | tu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 whoo | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 tu | punct |
| 29 | whoo | whoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 whit | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | fly | past | a night owl with glowing eyes | time | round Jorinde | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round she=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | screech | past | a night owl with glowing eyes not said here | tu whit and tu whoo | time | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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