The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 51
This went on for some time, but at last one of the boys spied out a woodpecker in the meadow-lands among the wood-pigeons, and when he had found her nest in a half-dead alder tree, came running to Peter with the news of his discovery.
Who acts: This, Peter · What happens: go on, spy out, find, come, run, discover · To what, where: woodpecker, meadow lands, nest, dead alder tree, Peter
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 (This, Peter), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spied | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 spied | cc |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 one | amod |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spied | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 boys | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boys | det |
| 14 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 one | nmod |
| 15 | spied | spy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 spied | compound:prt |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 woodpecker | det |
| 18 | woodpecker | woodpecker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spied | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 lands | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lands | det |
| 21 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lands | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 meadow | punct |
| 23 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 spied | obl |
| 24 | among | among | ADP | _ | 28 pigeons | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 pigeons | det |
| 26 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pigeons | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 wood | punct |
| 28 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 spied | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 found | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 found | cc |
| 31 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 found | advmod |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 found | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 found | aux |
| 34 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 went | parataxis |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 nest | nmod:poss |
| 36 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 found | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 tree | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 tree | det |
| 39 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 41 dead | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 half | punct |
| 41 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 tree | amod |
| 42 | alder | alder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 tree | compound |
| 43 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 found | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 came | punct |
| 45 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 46 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 45 came | advcl |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 Peter | case |
| 48 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 running | obl |
| 49 | with | with | ADP | _ | 51 news | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 news | det |
| 51 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 running | obl |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 discovery | case |
| 53 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 discovery | nmod:poss |
| 54 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 news | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | This | time | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spy out | past | This not said here | a woodpecker | the meadow lands | at last one of the boys; among the wood pigeons | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woodpecker=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | find | past · perfect | Peter | woodpecker's nest | a dead alder tree | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Topic | |||
| 4 | come | past | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | run | gerund | Peter | with the news of Peter's discovery | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to peter=Result | ||||
| 6 | discover | Peter | nom discovery «act transitive»: poss=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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