The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 62
The fox seized it in his mouth and ran off in triumph, while the magpie, though deeply grieved for the loss of his little one, found some comfort in the thought that only a bird of extraordinary wisdom would have dreamed of saving the rest by the sacrifice of the one.
Who acts: fox · What happens: seize, run off, grieve, find, dream, save · To what, where: nest, mouth, magpie, triumph, comfort, thought
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 (fox), 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 fox | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seized | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 mouth | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ran | cc |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 ran | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 triumph | case |
| 12 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 magpie | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 magpie | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 magpie | det |
| 16 | magpie | magpie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 grieved | punct |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 20 grieved | mark |
| 19 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 20 grieved | advmod |
| 20 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ran | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 loss | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 loss | det |
| 23 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grieved | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 one | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 one | nmod:poss |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 one | amod |
| 27 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 loss | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 found | punct |
| 29 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 30 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 comfort | det |
| 31 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 found | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 thought | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 thought | det |
| 34 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 found | obl |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 dreamed | obj |
| 36 | only | only | ADV | _ | 38 bird | advmod |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 bird | det |
| 38 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 dreamed | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 wisdom | case |
| 40 | extraordinary | extraordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 wisdom | amod |
| 41 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bird | nmod |
| 42 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 dreamed | aux |
| 43 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 dreamed | aux |
| 44 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 thought | acl:relcl |
| 45 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 46 saving | mark |
| 46 | saving | save | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 44 dreamed | advcl |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 rest | det |
| 48 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 saving | obj |
| 49 | by | by | ADP | _ | 51 sacrifice | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 sacrifice | det |
| 51 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 saving | obl |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 one | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 one | det |
| 54 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 sacrifice | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | the fox | nest | fox's mouth | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | run off | past | the fox not said here | the magpie | triumph | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in triumph=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | grieve | participle | the fox not said here | for the loss of fox's little one; deeply property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | find | past | the fox not said here | some comfort | the thought | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comfort=Topic | |||
| 5 | dream | would · perfect · passive | a bird of extraordinary wisdom | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | save | gerund | the rest | by the sacrifice of the one | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme | ||||
| 7 | sacrifice | the one | nom sacrifice «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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