English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 43
A word from Prince Florentine, the goshawk, and they all rose into the air, herons beneath, cygnets above, and goshawk circling above all.
Who acts: words, goshawk · What happens: rise, circle · To what, where: air, all
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 (words, goshawk), 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 | 2 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Florentine | case |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Florentine | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Florentine | Florentine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 word | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 goshawk | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 goshawk | det |
| 8 | goshawk | goshawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Florentine | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rose | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rose | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rose | nsubj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 rose | advmod |
| 13 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 word | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 air | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 air | det |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rose | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 herons | punct |
| 18 | herons | heron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 word | conj |
| 19 | beneath | beneath | ADV | _ | 18 herons | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cygnets | punct |
| 21 | cygnets | cygnet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 word | conj |
| 22 | above | above | ADV | _ | 21 cygnets | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 goshawk | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 goshawk | cc |
| 25 | goshawk | goshawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 word | appos |
| 26 | circling | circle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 goshawk | acl |
| 27 | above | above | ADP | _ | 28 all | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 circling | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 word | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | words = word | the air | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | circle | gerund | goshawk not said here | all | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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: «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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