The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 10

When she perceives that she cannot get into her nest she will fly round the tree uttering cries of distress, and then dart off towards the sun-setting.

Who acts: bird, distress · What happens: perceive, not get, fly, utter, dart off, cry · To what, where: nest, uttering cries, sun setting

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, distress), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 perceives	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 perceives	nsubj
3	perceives	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fly	advcl
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 get	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 get	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 get	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 get	advmod
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 perceives	ccomp
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 nest	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 nest	nmod:poss
11	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fly	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 fly	aux
14	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	round	round	ADP	_	17 tree	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tree	det
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 uttering	compound
18	uttering	utter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 cries	amod
19	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fly	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 distress	case
21	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cries	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dart	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 dart	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 dart	advmod
25	dart	dart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fly	advcl
26	off	off	ADP	_	25 dart	compound:prt
27	towards	towards	ADP	_	31 setting	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 setting	det
29	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 setting	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 sun	punct
31	setting	setting	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dart	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	perceive	present	bird				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not get	can	bird		bird's nest		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into nest=Destination
3	fly	future	bird	uttering cries of distress			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cry=Theme
4	utter speech: other	gerund					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	dart off	infinitive	bird not said here		the sun setting	then	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards setting=Destination
6	cry		distress				nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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