The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 16
With that the pigeons flew off and three eagles took their places, and this is what they said:
Who acts: pigeons, three eagles, this · What happens: fly off, take, be, say · To what, where: places · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pigeons, three eagles, this), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 flew | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pigeons | det |
| 4 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 flew | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 eagles | nummod |
| 9 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flew | conj |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 places | nmod:poss |
| 12 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 what | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 what | cc |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 what | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 what | cop |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 took | obl |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 what | acl:relcl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly off | past | the pigeons | with that | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | three eagles | eagles's places | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | pigeons = pigeon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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