The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 64
He reached at last a great desert, and saw some crows flying towards a mountain.
Who acts: cat, crows · What happens: reach, see, fly · To what, where: great desert, last, crows, mountain
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, crows), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 last | case |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 reached | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 desert | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 desert | amod |
| 7 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | conj |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 crows | det |
| 12 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 saw | obj |
| 13 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 crows | acl |
| 14 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 16 mountain | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mountain | det |
| 16 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flying | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | cat | a great desert | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent desert=Theme at last=Asset | |||
| 2 | see | past | cat not said here | some crows | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crow=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | some crows not said here | a mountain | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards mountain=Destination |
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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