The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 9
Look, in the spring, where she builds her nest in a hole in a tree, and when the time comes for her brood to fly off block up the entrance to the nest with a hard sod, and lurk in ambush behind the tree till the bird returns to feed her nestlings.
Who acts: you, step, time, bird · What happens: look, build, come, fly off, block up, return · To what, where: nest, hole, entrance, nestlings
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 (you, step, time, 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 spring | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 spring | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 spring | det |
| 5 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 builds | punct |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 builds | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 builds | nsubj |
| 9 | builds | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | parataxis |
| 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 | 9 builds | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hole | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hole | det |
| 14 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 builds | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 tree | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hole | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fly | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fly | cc |
| 20 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 23 comes | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 comes | nsubj |
| 23 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 fly | advcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 brood | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 brood | nmod:poss |
| 26 | brood | brood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 comes | obl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 fly | mark |
| 28 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | conj |
| 29 | off | off | ADP | _ | 28 fly | compound:prt |
| 30 | block | block | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 fly | xcomp |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 block | compound:prt |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 entrance | det |
| 33 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 block | obj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 nest | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 nest | det |
| 36 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 block | obl |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 sod | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 sod | det |
| 39 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 sod | amod |
| 40 | sod | sod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 block | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 lurk | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 lurk | cc |
| 43 | lurk | lurk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | parataxis |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 ambush | case |
| 45 | ambush | ambush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 lurk | nmod |
| 46 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 48 tree | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 tree | det |
| 48 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 ambush | nmod |
| 49 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 52 returns | mark |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 bird | det |
| 51 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 returns | nsubj |
| 52 | returns | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 lurk | advcl |
| 53 | to | to | PART | _ | 54 feed | mark |
| 54 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 returns | xcomp |
| 55 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 56 nestlings | nmod:poss |
| 56 | nestlings | nestling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 feed | obj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | spring | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | build | present | step | step's nest | a hole in a tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Product | |||
| 3 | come | present | the time | for step's brood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fly off | to-infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | block up | infinitive | you not said here | the entrance | to the nest; with a hard sod | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent entrance=Destination with sod=Theme | |||
| 6 | return | present | the bird | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | feed | to-infinitive | the bird not said here | step's nestlings | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nestling=Recipient |
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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