The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 59

I have built my nest on it, and my young ones are not yet old enough to fly.”

Who acts: I, young ones · What happens: build, not be, fly · To what, where: nest

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, young ones), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 built	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 built	aux
3	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nest	nmod:poss
5	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 built	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nest	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 old	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 old	cc
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 ones	nmod:poss
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ones	amod
12	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 old	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 old	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 old	advmod
15	yet	yet	ADV	_	16 old	advmod
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 built	conj
17	enough	enough	ADV	_	16 old	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 fly	mark
19	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 old	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 built	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present · perfect	I	my nest	nest			vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nest=Theme on it=Source
2	not is	present	my young ones			yet	enough, old property	tree rules
3	fly	to-infinitive	my young ones not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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