The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 73
The stork flew away and soon returned carrying in his beak a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, and laid it down near a lute.
Who acts: stork · What happens: fly away, return, carry, wrap, swaddle, lay down · To what, where: beak, baby, clothes, lute
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 (stork), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stork | det |
| 2 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 returned | cc |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 returned | advmod |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 8 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 returned | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 beak | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 beak | nmod:poss |
| 11 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carrying | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 baby | det |
| 13 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beak | conj |
| 14 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 baby | acl |
| 15 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 swaddling | mark |
| 16 | swaddling | swaddle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 wrapped | advcl |
| 17 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 16 swaddling | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 laid | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 laid | cc |
| 20 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 laid | obj |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 laid | compound:prt |
| 23 | near | near | ADP | _ | 25 lute | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 lute | det |
| 25 | lute | lute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 laid | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away | past | the stork | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | past | the stork not said here | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | the stork not said here | stork's beak and a baby | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in beak=Location | ||||
| 4 | wrap | participle | a baby not said here | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | swaddle | gerund | clothes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme clothes=Destination | |||||
| 6 | lay down | past | the stork not said here | baby | a lute | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme near lute=Destination |
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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