The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 97

He had only the berries for food, when, one morning, he saw a wood-pigeon sitting on a bough.

Who acts: prince, wood pigeon · What happens: have, see, sit · To what, where: berries, wood pigeon, bough

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, wood pigeon), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 berries	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 berries	det
5	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 food	case
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 berries	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 when	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 berries	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 morning	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 morning	nummod
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 berries	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pigeon	det
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pigeon	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 wood	punct
19	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saw	obj
20	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 pigeon	acl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 bough	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bough	det
23	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sitting	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	prince	the berries and one morning		for food	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient
2	see	past	prince	a wood pigeon			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pigeon=Stimulus
3	sit	gerund	a wood pigeon not said here		a bough		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bough=Location

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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