The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 129
The owl paused, and once more wiped her eyes with her wing, for the recital of her woes had drawn fresh tears from her.
Who acts: owl, recital · What happens: pause, wipe, draw · To what, where: eyes, fresh tears
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (owl, recital), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 owl | det |
| 2 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paused | nsubj |
| 3 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wiped | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wiped | cc |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 wiped | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 wiped | advmod |
| 8 | wiped | wipe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 paused | conj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wiped | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 wing | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wing | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wiped | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 recital | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 recital | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 recital | det |
| 17 | recital | recital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wiped | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 woes | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 woes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | woes | woe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 drawn | obl |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 drawn | aux |
| 22 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 recital | acl:relcl |
| 23 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tears | amod |
| 24 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 drawn | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 tears | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | past | the owl | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wipe | past | the owl not said here | wife's eyes | with wife's wing; for the recital; once property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Source | |||
| 3 | draw | past · perfect | the recital not said here | fresh tears | of wife's woes; from wife | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent tear=Theme of woe=Initial_Location |
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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