The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 82
But he had not taken proper aim, and the bird was only wounded, and fluttered along the ground.
Who acts: boy, bird · What happens: not take, be, flutter · To what, where: proper aim, ground
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, bird), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 taken | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 taken | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 taken | advmod |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 aim | amod |
| 7 | aim | aim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wounded | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wounded | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wounded | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wounded | cop |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 wounded | advmod |
| 14 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 taken | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fluttered | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fluttered | cc |
| 17 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 wounded | conj |
| 18 | along | along | ADP | _ | 20 ground | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ground | det |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fluttered | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | past · perfect | boy | proper aim | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the bird | wounded property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | flutter | participle | the bird not said here | the ground | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along ground=Location |
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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