English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 44
The weddineers wondered at the sight when, swoop! the herons were down among them scattering the men-at-arms.
Who acts: weddineers, herons · What happens: wonder, swoop, be, scatter · To what, where: sight, men, arms
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 (weddineers, herons), 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 weddineers | det |
| 2 | weddineers | weddineer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wondered | nsubj |
| 3 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 sight | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sight | det |
| 6 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wondered | obl |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 swoop | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 swoop | punct |
| 9 | swoop | swoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wondered | advcl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 swoop | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 herons | det |
| 12 | herons | heron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 down | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 down | cop |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 swoop | advmod |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 scattering | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 scattering | nsubj |
| 17 | scattering | scatter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 down | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 men | det |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 scattering | obj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 arms | punct |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 arms | case |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 at | punct |
| 23 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 men | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past | the weddineers | the sight | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | swoop | present | the weddineers not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the herons | down property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | scatter | gerund | herons = heron | the men | arms | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent man=Theme at arm=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: «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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