English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 30
Now the queen his mother was taking her walk abroad when she saw the pretty dove flying overhead and alighting on the castle walls.
Who acts: queen, mother, pretty dove · What happens: take, walk, see, fly, alight · To what, where: pretty dove, castle walls
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, mother, pretty dove), 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 | 7 taking | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taking | nsubj |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taking | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 taking | aux |
| 7 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 walk | nmod:poss |
| 9 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 taking | xcomp |
| 10 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 9 walk | advmod |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 saw | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 taking | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dove | det |
| 15 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dove | amod |
| 16 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 17 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 dove | acl |
| 18 | overhead | overhead | ADV | _ | 17 flying | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 alighting | cc |
| 20 | alighting | alight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 flying | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 walls | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 walls | det |
| 23 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 walls | compound |
| 24 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 alighting | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 taking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · progressive | the queen | now | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | walk | infinitive | the queen not said here | abroad property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | mother | the pretty dove | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dove=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | fly | gerund | the pretty dove not said here | overhead property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | alight | gerund | the pretty dove not said here | the castle walls | tree rules |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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