The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 20

And when the little ones were able to fly from their nest he taught them where to look for the fruits and berries which she loved.

Who acts: little ones, fairy, nest, Wildrose · What happens: be, fly, teach, look, love · To what, where: nest, treetops, fruits

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little ones, fairy, nest, Wildrose), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 able	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 able	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ones	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ones	amod
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 able	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 able	cop
7	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fly	mark
9	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 able	xcomp
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 nest	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 nest	nmod:poss
12	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fly	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 taught	nsubj
14	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 nest	acl:relcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 taught	obj
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 look	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 look	mark
18	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 taught	xcomp
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 fruits	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fruits	det
21	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 look	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 berries	cc
23	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fruits	conj
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 loved	obj
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 loved	nsubj
26	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fruits	acl:relcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the little ones				able property	tree rules
2	fly	to-infinitive	the little ones not said here			treetops's nest		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from nest=Trajectory
3	teach speech: other	past	fairy	treetops's nest not said here	treetops = treetop			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	look	to-infinitive	treetops's nest not said here				for the fruits and berries	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for fruit=Theme
5	love	past	Wildrose	the fruits and berries				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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