The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 52
Peter could hardly believe his good fortune, and went quickly to see for himself if it was really true; and when he reached the tree there certainly was a bird flying in and out as if she had a nest in it.
Who acts: Peter, nest, bird · What happens: believe, go, see, be, reach, fly · To what, where: good fortune, tree, bird, nest
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 (Peter, nest, 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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | aux |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 believe | advmod |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fortune | amod |
| 7 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 believe | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | conj |
| 11 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 see | mark |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 went | xcomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 himself | case |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 see | obl |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 true | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 true | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 true | cop |
| 19 | really | really | ADV | _ | 20 true | advmod |
| 20 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 see | ccomp |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 reached | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 reached | cc |
| 23 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 reached | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 reached | nsubj |
| 25 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tree | det |
| 27 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 reached | obj |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 reached | advmod |
| 29 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 32 bird | advmod |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 bird | cop |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 bird | det |
| 32 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 reached | obl |
| 33 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 bird | acl |
| 34 | in | in | ADV | _ | 33 flying | advmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 out | cc |
| 36 | out | out | ADV | _ | 34 in | conj |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 had | mark |
| 38 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 40 had | mark |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 had | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 flying | advcl |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 nest | det |
| 42 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 had | obj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 it | case |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 nest | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | could | Peter | Peter's good fortune | hardly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fortune=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | go | past | Peter not said here | quickly property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | for Peter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | nest | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | reach | past | Peter | the tree | there | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | |||
| 6 | is a | past | a bird | certainly property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | fly | gerund | a bird not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | have | past | bird | a nest | nest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Patient |
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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