The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 30
While he lay thus, a wood-pigeon flew in through the window.
Who acts: prince, wood pigeon · What happens: lie, fly in · To what, where: window
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 lay | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 flew | advcl |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 lay | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pigeon | det |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pigeon | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 wood | punct |
| 9 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flew | nsubj |
| 10 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 flew | advmod |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 window | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 window | det |
| 14 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flew | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | prince | thus property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fly in | past | a wood pigeon | the window | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=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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